The homecoming of Nepal’s gods
Nearly 40 years after it was stolen from Patan, a rare stone statue of Laxmi-Narayan is finally landing at Kathmandu airport this...
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Nepal’s gods return from exile
One day in 1984, the residents of a Patan neighbourhood woke up in the morning to notice that the Laxmi-Narayan they had...
Replicating Nepal’s stolen gods
It is difficult to get western museums to return trafficked deities, so Nepalis are making copies of the missing statuary
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