Radio Sarangi (Morang)

Sarangi is the bowed folk fiddle of Nepal, the instrument that makes a melody sound like it's telling you something. Naming a station after it sets a bar. Radio Sarangi (Morang) comes from the eastern Terai, the flat, hot plains around Biratnagar, and Nepali music is the whole point. That means lok geet and dohori, the call-and-response duets that turn any family gathering into a competition, next to adhunik geet in the Narayan Gopal line and modern Nepali pop. Kutumba's folk instrumentals would sit fine in that company. Morang's listeners speak Nepali, Maithili, and Tharu, and the region's mu…