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 KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - If there's any truth to the old notion that Nepal is a country with one foot in the 16th century and the other in the 21st, then Rubin Ghandarba is its living embodiment.
Just as his minstrel forefathers did in the centuries before radio and television, the 14-year-old spreads news through song, much like the bards of medieval Europe.
But instead of singing about great battles and petty gossip, as his ancestors did, the young Nepali sings of revolution in his Himalayan homeland, where a king is facing off against Maoist rebels and opposition protesters before a key election.
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