Radio Bandhan

Nepal's radio culture is a stubborn, wonderful thing. Radio Bandhan sits in the middle of it, the kind of mix that fills tea shops in Kathmandu and buses grinding up the Prithvi Highway. Expect lok geet and dohori. Also adhunik standards, the Narayan Gopal and Aruna Lama songs your grandmother still knows by heart, plus newer names like Bipul Chettri and Sajjan Raj Vaidya. Kutumba might turn up between them. It's not tightly formatted. That's the appeal. Long before private FM existed, Radio Nepal held the dial alone; stations like this inherited that habit of talking to the whole country at o…