Career
He has more than forty volumes of poetry and translation works to his cartulary-register He is also a theatre artist and has participated in a number of major full-length productions. Initially he taught at the Street Bede"s College in Shimla before joining the Department of English of Panjab University, Chandigarh, where he is at present teaching.
Rana Nayar"s critical works on poetry include "Edward Albee: Towards a Typology of Relationships" published in 2003 by Prestige Publishers.
His other critical works which are forthcoming include "Mediations: Self & Society", which is a collection of essays on Indian history, society and culture, and "Third World Narrative: Theory & Practice". He has made seminal contribution to historical analysis of Indian literary translation.