| Crusading Radio from Kathmandu
There are several dozen radio stations in Nepal, but none other makes news as does Sagarmatha, which began as "a pirate radio station" and (the first private FM station in South Asia) in 1997. Jerome Taylor of the UK-based Independent newspaper reports its role after the February 2005 coup. Mohan Bista, the station's chief, tells Taylor that thier role has actually gotten bigger in the new democratic dispensation.
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