Tapovani - A podcast for Senior Citizens, largely in Tamil

 Tapovani - A podcast for Senior Citizens, largely in Tamil

(https://i-radiolive.com/podcast/channel/tapovani/)

Tapovani is a podcast hosted on I-Radio platform recently in March 2021. This has been started by one Sreedhar, 74, a resident of Tapovan Senior Citizens Foundation in Madhampatty near Coimbatore with some fifteen volunteers, all seniors!. Within five weeks of launch, it has 47 podcasts, mostly in Tamil. The content ranges from speeches, interviews, group interactions, musical events etc. Statistics for the site is impressive: 600 visitors - 95% from India - mostly from Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru. It has the distinction of being the first podcast in the country exclusively devoted to the elderly. 

Of late interest in podcasts has increased a lot in India. There are more than 25 podcasts catering to various tastes. Platforms like Spotify, Castbox,  Google Podcasts and Anchor.fm etc have amazing content with podcasts in a wide ranging topics like food, travel, Bollywood, TV, health, news etc.  Tapovani may be added to all such aggregators sites also.

Some suggestions to Tapovani: There is no provision for comments by visitors or feedback. I listened to the talk on Karadaiyan Nonbu - interesting facts. The delivery was very clear and impactful. In other podcast aggregation sites, we find extra facilities like Time stamps, notes, transcript, references, Infographs etc. For instance visit: coreimpodcast.com

Seniors Citizens may well listen to such podcasts and develop different  ways of spending time to ward off loneliness. I congratulate Sreedhar and his team for their contribution to Seniors' Community.

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