{"id":61388,"date":"2024-01-24T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/24\/our-god-was-locked-in-a-us-museum-the-heritage-hunters-bringing-home-nepals-lost-treasures"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T06:00:05","slug":"our-god-was-locked-in-a-us-museum-the-heritage-hunters-bringing-home-nepals-lost-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61388","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our god was locked in a US museum\u2019: the heritage hunters bringing home Nepal\u2019s lost treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of ancient artefacts have been taken out of the country. These Nepalese citizens are determined to get them back.<\/p>\n<p>Flicking through a newspaper in 2020, Sanjay Adhikari <a href=\"https:\/\/ekantipur.com\/news\/2019\/11\/20\/15742499066388579.html\">read<\/a> a story that changed the direction of his life \u2013 a Nepalese statue of gods Laxmi and Narayan, was on display at the Dallas Museum of Art. \u201cI could not sleep. Our god was locked inside a museum in the US,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Adhikari, from Kathmandu, spoke to conservationists, activists, journalists and museum curators, and launched a campaign to see the 10th-century statue returned to Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>Sanjay Adhikari in front of the Laxmi Narayan Temple in Lalitpur. Adhikari helped recover the temple\u2019s main statue of the god and goddess from the US<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/24\/our-god-was-locked-in-a-us-museum-the-heritage-hunters-bringing-home-nepals-lost-treasures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of ancient artefacts have been taken out of the country. These Nepalese citizens are determined to get them back.Flicking through a newspaper in 2020, Sanjay Adhikari read a story that changed the direction of his life \u2013 a Nepalese statue of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,59,514,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-global-development","category-heritage","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61402,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61388\/revisions\/61402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}