Radio Janmabhumi

Radio Janmabhumi is a Nepali station in the broadest sense of the word: news, talk, and music for a country that stretches from the Terai plains to the Himalaya. That's a wide brief. It handles it. The playlist tends toward adhunik geet and lok geet, the modern and folk songs that most Nepali households grew up with, with room for dohori call-and-response and the occasional guitar-driven track from bands like 1974 AD. Don't expect a tightly formatted hit station. Expect a voice, a microphone, and whatever the day demands. Some blocks lean heavily on talk, and if you don't speak Nepali you'll b…