WHEN COORG HAD A BEAUTIFUL LADY IAS OFFICER
By P.T. Bopanna Even as D. Roopa, IPS, and Rohini Sindhuri, IAS, are engaged in a catfight on Facebook, I recall with fondness my first day as a journalist which involved interviewing the beautiful...
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PAID NEWS: IS DECCAN HERALD INDULGING IN UNETHICAL PRACTICES?
By P.T. Bopanna Being a journalist, I was shocked to go through the Bengaluru-headquartered Deccan Herald newspaper published on February 6. In the guise of news, the paper had published an advertisement on page...
RAJ CHENGAPPA INTERVIEW: DID ADANI TAKE CHENGAPPA FOR A RIDE?
By P.T. Bopanna When India Today’s Raj Chengappa (in picture) managed to get an exclusive interview with Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani in December, Chengappa must have thought it was sort of a journalistic...
KODAGU (COORG) DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IS IN ‘ICU’. ‘DOUBLE ENGINE’ IS AN EMPTY SLOGAN
P.T. Bopanna Though Karnataka has a ‘double engine’ government, the Kodagu (Coorg) district administration is in the ICU. This despite the fact that Kodagu is a bastion of the saffron party. For those who...
SHAME ON YOU ZEE KANNADA: CHEAP GIMMICKS TO MALIGN ACTRESS RASHMIKA MANDANNA
By P.T. Bopanna Zee Kannada television channel has stooped low by resorting to cheap gimmicks to target popular Indian actress Rashmika Mandanna who hails from Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka. In one of their...
SHRADDHA STYLE MURDER: WHEN A BENGALURU PROFESSOR CHOPPED BODY OF A PREGNANT COORG WOMAN
By P.T. Bopanna This reporter who used to cover the crime beat for The Times of India in the 1980s, recalls how a Bengaluru court created judicial history in India by accepting DNA fingerprinting...
KANTARA VICTIM: ACTRESS RASHMIKA MANDANNA IS UNFAIRLY TARGETED BY TROLLS
By P.T. Bopanna Coorg-born Rashmika Mandanna, one of the top actresses from South India, has been unfairly targeted by trolls in her home state of Karnataka for failing to watch the blockbuster Kannada movie...
KANTARA RISHAB SHETTY’S CLAIM AND ITS IMPACT ON KODAVA CULTURE. CHETAN HAD LED TRIBAL MARCH IN COORG
By P.T. Bopanna Activist and actor Chetan Kumar who has crossed swords with Kantara film director Rishab Shetty, had in 2017 led an agitation of tribals (in picture) in Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka against...
HUMOUR: WILL COORG EGG ‘MISSILE’ CATAPULT SIDDARAMAIAH TO CM POST AGAIN?
By P.T. Bopanna If Congress leader Siddaramaiah gets elected as chief minister of Karnataka in 2023 Assembly polls, he should be ‘thankful’ to the egg thrown at his car by a miscreant in Kodagu...
SOLUTION TO LOOMING THREAT OF EARTHQUAKES AND LANDSLIDES IN COORG
By P.T. Bopanna The only way to save Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka from the impending earthquakes and landslides is to declare the entire district as eco sensitive area (ESA) as recommended by Prof Madhav...
