By P.T. Bopanna The recent ‘selfie’ of Kodagu’s (Coorg) top women officers in Karnataka was a great social media story, but the fact remains that Kodagu’s official machinery is a disgrace as most of...
By P.T. Bopanna By continuing the exemption given to Kodavas (Coorgs) in Karnataka to own guns without licence, the BJP government at the Centre has recognised the centrality of arms worship in the religious...
By P.T. Bopanna While welcoming BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s letter to Karnataka government to consider grant of an autonomous development council for Kodagu (Coorg) district, any such council should not be confined exclusively to...
By P.T. Bopanna Though the origin of the Kodavas (Coorgs) in Karnataka is still a mystery, researchers tend to believe they are the descendants of pre-Muslim Kurds, hailing from present Turkey, Iran and Iraq...
By P.T. Bopanna The ‘dirty politics’ being played by Kodagu (Coorg) MP Pratap Simha to establish the Mysuru-Kushalanagar railway line, suffered a jolt on Tuesday after the Karnataka High Court asked the Indian Railways...
By Roona Uthappa Ballachanda Watching the Kodavas (Coorgs) celebrate River Kaveri on Sankramana Day during the British Raj, the then Chief Commissioner of Coorg, Hilton Brown wrote in his article ‘The Astonishing Land of...
By P.T. Bopanna Madikeri Dasara is next only to Mysore Dasara in grandeur and popularity. This year’s Dasara celebrations turned out to be a major social media event. The highlight was the ‘selfie’ by...
By P.T. Bopanna My ‘finest hour’ as a professional journalist came when H.D. Deve Gowda (in picture) became the prime minister of India in 1996. Around that time, I was working as a Principal...
By P.T. Bopanna With a view to promote excellence among young Kodavas (Coorgs) from disadvantaged backgrounds, retired IAS officer from Chennai, P.M. Belliappa (in picture), has created an endowment fund of Rs 50 lakhs...
By P.T. Bopanna With many hillocks across Kodagu (Coorg), including the Brahmagiri hill range near the Talacauvery temple in Karnataka developing cracks, the time has come to declare the entire district as Ecologically Sensitive...
