Ninglekhu/ku today

Two people documented well enough to cite

Dr Sabin Ninglekhu (Sabin Ninglekhu Limbu) — urban geographer

PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto; postdoctoral fellow at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, from 2017 to 2021; and, as of August 2026, Principal Investigator of the project “Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia,” based at Social Science Baha, Kathmandu Institutional profiles of Sabin Ninglekhu C.

His peer-reviewed work includes “‘Inauthentic’ Sukumbasi: The Politics of Aesthetics and Urgency in Kathmandu” (HIMALAYA 37:1, 2017); “Rebuilding historic urban neighborhoods after disasters” (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2023, with Daly, Hollenbach, Horton and others); and “Situating local stakeholders within national disaster governance structures” (Environment and Urbanization, 2017) B. He writes opinion journalism for The Kathmandu Post The Kathmandu Post and Ekantipur: the Koshi naming vote (1 March 2023), the December 2024 dialogue committee, and the August 2026 indigenous-language digitisation report, and was interviewed by Ekantipur on 26 April 2026 — the headline of that interview is the source that confirms the standard Devanagari spelling of the name in a national newspaper 2026 C.

Dr Jiwan L. Ninglekhu — cybersecurity researcher

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio; CISSP; at Deloitte as of August 2026. Published work includes “ARRA: Attribute-Based Role-Role Assignment,” “AARBAC: Attribute-Based Administration of Role-Based Access Control,” “Securing implantable cardioverter defibrillators using smartphones,” and “Smartphone-based Secure Authenticated Session Sharing in Internet of Personal Things” B. Patent filings are indexed under both “Jiwan Ninglekhu” and “Jiwan L. Ninglekhu” at Justia, though the underlying records could not be opened to confirm titles or numbers Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C.

No source states his ethnicity. The Limbu identification rests on the surname alone and is not asserted here without confirmation.

And beyond those two

The surname appears on social-media accounts that typically append “Limbu” to it. That is the pattern this site describes elsewhere: the thar survives as an informal identifier alongside the official ethnonym that the state wrote onto the papers Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C. It is evidence of how the name lives, not a roll of the clan.