Radio Kamal

Radio Kamal is a Nepali station, and if you've spent time with radio in Kathmandu, you know the shape of it. The playlist swings hard, often inside a single hour: adhunik geet, the sentimental mid-century songbook that Narayan Gopal and Arun Thapa built, sitting next to lok geet and folk, all dholak and madal. Polished formatting isn't the point. Being company is. There's a warmth to Nepali radio that streaming algorithms can't fake, and stations like this trade on it. Fans of Bipul Chettri or Kutumba will find plenty that fits, plus the older material those artists grew up on. Expect plenty o…