Siddhartha FM

Siddhartha FM sits in the wide middle of Nepali radio. Nothing wrong with that. The playlist runs on lok geet, adhunik, and pop, the stuff of buses on the Prithvi Highway and teashops in Pokhara. Narayan Gopal's old recordings turn up beside modern Nepali pop. A Kutumba instrumental might follow. Tune in for Siddhartha FM live and you get the unpolished version: a station that sounds like it's broadcasting to neighbors, not focus groups. Radio in Nepal still gathers a room around one set. It doesn't chase trends the way Western stations do. It serves a country, not a demographic. That's the ch…