Selvarani Mari is a fisher and seaweed collector who lives on Pamban Island of Tamil Nadu, on the southernmost tip of India <https://www.theguardian.com/world/india>.
Every day she helps her husband cast the fishing nets, maintains rafts for cultivating seaweed, and dives into the ocean to gather sargassum. But she always makes time to listen to the radio. Mari, 33, and her friends and family all unfailingly tune into Kadal Osai <https://www.kadalosaifm.com/> on 90.4FM, India’s first local radio station for a fishing community <https://www.hindustantimes.com/it-s-viral/tamil-nadu-fisherman-starts-india-s-first-radio-channel-exclusively-for-fisherfolk/story-0ZPVxt3OpMU2fazyF1QfhL.html#:~:text=A%20fisherman%20from%20the%20Ramanathapuram,only%20radio%20channel%20for%20fisherfolk.&text=Later%2C%20he%20planned%20to%20start,was%20launched%20to%20help%20them.>. With guests including from older people from the villages sharing their fishing wisdom or chatting about the climate crisis, the station has become an integral part of local life, featuring gossip, jokes, old songs and news on fish prices and sea conditions. Gayathri Usman, head of Kadal Osai, fell in love with the station when she visited the area, and stayed on to run it.. “While a majority of the 12-member crew is from the same community, I am the odd one out,” she says. “Our shows are popular because they are entertaining, useful, and, more importantly, in a local dialect of Tamil that the fishing community understands and finds comfort in,” she says. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jan/07/making-waves-the-hit-indian-island-radio-station-leading-climate-conversations EricF Vancouver
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