Alisha Sijapati
Alisha Sijapati is a correspondent at Nepali Times. With over a decade of experience she specialises in cultural heritage reporting with insights into socio and geo-politics. She holds an MA in Cultural Heritage Studies from Central European University. Alisha has made significant contributions to various newsrooms in Kathmandu. Beyond her journalistic endeavors, she is deeply engaged in discussions about the theft of Nepal's stolen heritage.
Articles by Alisha Sijapati
Unholy developments at holy sites
Corruption and commerce threaten World Heritage Site status of Lumbini and Pashupati
Alternative lifestyle, alternative art
The Kala Salon is the newest haven for art lovers with green hearts in Kathmandu
West is West
Toni Hagen’s photographs of remote western Nepal from the 1950s show how much it has changed, and how much is the same
The godhead of Pharping
This Saraswati Puja, visit the National Museum to pay respects to the decapitated head of the stolen goddess
Viking's khukri passion
Viking Kunwor takes his Gorkha heritage forward crafting khukri knives
Life after death
Funerary spaces for cremations and burials are shrinking rapidly for Nepal’s minorities
Nepal’s diaspora helps return stolen gods
Nepalis in New York set a precedent by helping repatriate trafficked sacred objects to Nepal
Seeing the forest and the trees
Show depicting plight of Odisha’s downtrodden at the hands of India's richest has parallels in Nepal
Letters from the Western Front
More than 200 years after they were written, battlefield correspondence fill gaps in the history of the Anglo-Nepal War
Long leave the King
Fifteen years after a post-conflict Constituent Assembly abolished Nepal’s monarchy, growing public discontent with the successive governments…