Officials from the fisheries dept, the police and the panchayats use the radio station to announce new protocols Gayathri Usman’s life as station head of community radio station Kadal Osai, based on the island of Pamban that lies halfway between mainland India and Sri Lanka, could until recently be described as idyllic by city standards.
A typical workday at Kadal Osai (meaning ‘sounds of the ocean’ in Tamil) involved broadcasting information about the price of fish, wind speeds and the weather, interspersed with traditional songs popular with the fishing community in the tiny island.
Now, like the rest of the world, the coronavirus pandemic has upended old routines at the radio station and the lives of its listeners.
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