Pranaya SJB Rana

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by Pranaya SJB Rana 13 April 2009
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Pranaya SJB Rana is an editor for V.E.N.T! Magazine. He is currently studying Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Before heading to the states, he was a reporter for the Nepali Times and WAVE Magazine in Kathmandu, Nepal. 

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