Next week, deep sea divers, fisherfolk, researchers and like-minded people from different walks of life, will gather at Auroville to discuss and innovate on solutions for a cleaner ocean.
The Ocean Festival is a collaboration between Pondicherry Tourism and Auroville to help bring awareness to the plight of the ocean. The mascot of the festival is the little handmade doll named Tsunamika, whom organisers describe as a living symbol of hope, that has now taken the form of an Ocean Goddess.
Tsunamika was born of the result of man’s response to natural calamity. Following the 2004 Tsunami, Uma Prajapati, the founder of Upasana Design Studio, started the Tsunamika project while working with 600 fisherfolk to create dolls to provide trauma counselling.
