Radio Bandipur FM

Bandipur sits on a ridge above the Marsyangdi valley, a Newari trading town turned hill retreat, and a station named after it probably sounds like the place: unhurried, local, a bit rough around the edges. Radio Bandipur FM live is small-town Nepali radio, which means the music leans on folk, lok geet and bhajans before it reaches for Nepali pop. Picture Kutumba's madal-driven instrumentals or a Sajjan Raj Vaidya ballad rather than Kathmandu chart fodder. Talk comes in Nepali, and that's fine even if you don't speak a word of it. Tone carries. Expect the community-radio rhythm: callers, local…