Diamond Shumsher Rana (डायमनशमशेर राणा) was born at Tansen Durbar in Palpa, where his grandfather, Sher Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, was governor. His father Buddha Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana was a colonel in the Royal Nepal Army.Rana enjoyed a privileged upbringing and was a captain in the Royal Nepal Army. In 1948 Rana travelled to Benaras, India and had his first novel Basanti published. In Nepal, he had aligned himself with an anti-establishment faction of the Rana regime and was arrested, court-martialled and sentenced to death but was later freed after members of the Rana family pressured the regime for his release. Rana later joined the political opposition and was a member of the Nepali Congress Party from 1954 to 1987.
अनिता पठनीय, रोचक र यथार्थपरक उपन्यास हो | मिठास शब्द, जीवन्त कहानी, राजनीतिक विश्लेषण, व्यक्तिगत र दलगत नीति बारे स्पष्टाइएको यस उपन्यासका पात्रहरु राणाकालिन समयका भएतापनि अहिलेसम्मको समय सन्दर्भमा मेल खान खान्छन्|