Mahesh Raj Pant, a noted scholar, prolific writer, and brilliant literary explorer in his own right, has done a commendable act in getting a portion of the diary of his illustrious father and one of the iconic academic scholars in the fields of Sanskrit, astrology, archaeology, history, and mathematics, Naya Raj Pant, duly translated and edited in the form of a book. The wonderfully compiled work entitled RAAJAA, RAANAA RA KAANGRES: Naya Raj Pantko Diary (Bikram Sambat 2007 Kartik-2008 Chaitra) can roughly be translated as the King, Rana, and Congress: Diary of Naya Raj Pant (From November 1950 to April 1951). The book has an impressively colourful cover depicting the arrival of three-year old smart-looking "King," Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, escorted by the last Rana Prime Minister Shri Teen Maharaj Mohan Shumshere to formally accept the Nepali Crown in the absence of his grandfather, King Tribhuvan, who opted to take political asylum in the premises of the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu a day earlier.
It has a long prologue that is not only self-revealing but also a succint summary of the diary in such a way that it has shed light on the painstaking endeavour of the diary keeper and the context he has referred to. It also contains two pages of a diary in handwritten form as a draft and clean copy made by another scholar, historian, and explorer, Gyan Mani Nepal, who sadly passed away recently. The second part of the book contains original Sanskrit entries both in prose and .