Alisha Sijapati is a writer and cultural heritage practitioner.
Nepal’s new heritage Bill needs an inclusive board, not just statutory words
Inside, we focused on our breath. Outside, the nation held its. This is what we found when we finally exhaled.
Corruption and commerce threaten World Heritage Site status of Lumbini and Pashupati
The Kala Salon is the newest haven for art lovers with green hearts in Kathmandu
Toni Hagen’s photographs of remote western Nepal from the 1950s show how much it has changed, and how much is the same
This Saraswati Puja, visit the National Museum to pay respects to the decapitated head of the stolen goddess
Viking Kunwor takes his Gorkha heritage forward crafting khukri knives
Funerary spaces for cremations and burials are shrinking rapidly for Nepal’s minorities
Nepalis in New York set a precedent by helping repatriate trafficked sacred objects to Nepal
Show depicting plight of Odisha’s downtrodden at the hands of India's richest has parallels in Nepal
More than 200 years after they were written, battlefield correspondence fill gaps in the history of the Anglo-Nepal War
Fifteen years after a post-conflict Constituent Assembly abolished Nepal’s monarchy, growing public discontent with the successive governments…
Heritage and culture have been shunted from one ministry to another for 40 years, no one quite seems to know where to put them
View of the Gorkhali fort at Subathu. Photos: ALISHA SIJAPATINepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month retracing the Gorkha expansion…
The ramparts of Kangra Fort were so formidable it was impossible for enemy troops to scale. A siege was the only way to try to defeat the forces…
Kangra Fort in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, as seen from Maharaja Sansar Chandra Museum. The battle for this fortress in 1815 was a…
British Gurkha veterans and their families march in London on 15 June, asking the British government, among other demands, to rush vaccine…
The 400-year-old necklace once worn by the Taleju Bhawani goddess in Kathmandu that is now in a museum in the United States. Photo: ART…
The original torona over a door in Mulchok of Patan Darbar Square in early 70s. Photo: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. And after the 12 gilded…
Twenty years ago on 1 June, 2001, Nepal witnessed an unimaginably shocking tragedy. King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of…
Even as the pandemic spread across the Subcontinent last year, and one country after another went into lockdown, I lost my grandmother. She was…
Nepali family living in Goa for the past 10 years: Amar Tiruva and his wife Radha with their daughter, Antara. Radha died this week, and Amar is…
The Laxmi-Narayan upon arrival in Nepal Embassy in Washington DC on 6 March. Photo: AMITABHA JOSHINearly 40 years after it was stolen from…
Kathmandu Valley's ponds need to be revived, not just restored
