Subodh Rana is a long-time veteran of the tourism industry in Nepal, having run his own travel agency since 1990 and currently holding the position of CEO at Malla Travel an international joint venture company. His years of professional and societal engagement with the people and land of his birth, as well as his unique and historical perspective as member of the Rana family, a dynasty that ruled Nepal from 1846 to 1951, has endowed Rana with a love for storytelling.
It is a story of two powerful women, sisters married to Crown Prince Trailokya Bikram Shah in 1800s, Nepalese history has little to no record about their role in palace politics at that time.
The last Rana ruler Maharajah Mohun Shumsher was wise to bestow Godavari's Rana-era buildings and its expansive grounds to the Jesuits to run a school.
A Sthapati boy from an artisans caste of, Arniko was the master builder of the Yuan Dynasty, China during the reign of Emperor Kublai Khan.
Rana Maharaja installed Equestrian statues of themselves made by English artis during their 204 year old reign over Nepal.
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