• Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh

Radio HAOR — হাওরের কণ্ঠস্বর

Voice of the Haor. Broadcasting from Netrokona across seven districts — water, soil, and song.

— Bangladesh's first

An FM station rooted in the haor, not looking at it

The Mymensingh Geetika, Bhatiyali, and Baul traditions are not content we schedule around other programming. They are the broadcast — every day, in every hour.

From the fishing villages of Kishoreganj to the tea gardens beyond Netrokona, Radio HAOR carries the voices already alive here — unmediated, unhurried, and entirely of this place.

12 million+ listeners. 7 districts. One FM station built entirely for Mymensingh Division — dedicated to its people, its seasons, and its daily rhythms.

Close-up of worn hands holding a yellowed manuscript page, natural north-facing window light falling across the paper, the texture of aged Bengali script visible, a wooden desk edge in the lower frame
Close-up of worn hands holding a yellowed manuscript page, natural north-facing window light falling across the paper, the texture of aged Bengali script visible, a wooden desk edge in the lower frame
A boatman on a wide haor channel at midday, paddle resting across the bow, the flat water mirroring a pale sky, shot from low and slightly behind so the figure is silhouetted against the water's surface
A boatman on a wide haor channel at midday, paddle resting across the bow, the flat water mirroring a pale sky, shot from low and slightly behind so the figure is silhouetted against the water's surface
A Baul singer's ektara resting against a mud wall at dusk, the single string catching low amber light, a hand just entering frame from the left, the wall's texture warm and worn
A Baul singer's ektara resting against a mud wall at dusk, the single string catching low amber light, a hand just entering frame from the left, the wall's texture warm and worn
/ On air, every day

Three traditions. One frequency.

Morning programme
Afternoon programme
Evening programme

গীতিকার সুর — Songs of the Geetika

ভাটিয়ালির ধারা — The Bhatiyali Stream

বাউলের পথ — The Baul's Road

Five centuries of narrative song from the Mymensingh Geetika — performed live and in archival recordings by singers still learning from their grandparents.

River songs carried downstream for generations — Bhatiyali performed by boatmen, farmers, and wanderers who still know every word without ever writing them down.

Baul devotional music from across the division — mystic songs of the open road, the inner river, and the questions that outlast every season.

Wide environmental shot of the haor wetlands in monsoon fullness — water reaching to every horizon, a small cluster of homesteads raised on earthen mounds visible in the far left third, late afternoon light casting long gold lines across the water surface, shot from a low angle at water level emphasising the vast open sky above
Wide environmental shot of the haor wetlands in monsoon fullness — water reaching to every horizon, a small cluster of homesteads raised on earthen mounds visible in the far left third, late afternoon light casting long gold lines across the water surface, shot from a low angle at water level emphasising the vast open sky above
▸ জল ও মাটি — Water and soil

The haor has always had its own season and its own song

Monsoon fills the haor basin until it becomes an inland sea. Dry season pulls the water back to reveal fields and paths. The people here have always read the land by water.

Radio HAOR broadcasts to that rhythm — not despite the wet season and the dry season, but because of them. This is not a station covering the region; it is a station of the region.