By P.T. Bopanna* There is bad news for Indian coffee as the Chinese have started converting their main tea growing areas into coffee plantations. China which has of late been flexing its muscles and...
Author: P.T. Bopanna Title: The Romance of Indian Coffee Publisher: Prism Books Pvt Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2011 Title: Coorg: Land of Beauty and Valour Publisher: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2010 Title: Coorg...
Writer Devaiah Bopanna’s post on Facebook generates over 6,000 likes, 1,824 shares and 630 comments. In his FB post, Devaiah (in picture), who is a creative writer with Mumbai-headquartered All India Bakchod (AIB), a...
By P.T. Bopanna Will the renewed demand for Gorkhaland in West Bengal have its echo in Kodagu (Coorg) district of Karnataka? Though the demand for a separate Coorg State is unlikely to pick up...
By P.T. Bopanna The Congress-led Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka which had rejected the Kasturirangan report apparently to mobilise funds from the timber lobby for Assembly polls, has been cornered by the Modi government at...
By P.T. Bopanna Probably for the first time, gentlemen planters and their lovely ladies, participated in a protest march in Kodagu (Coorg). Normally, the hurly-burly of protest politics is not their cup of tea,...
By P.T. Bopanna It will not be an exaggeration to say that elephants do not live anymore in the forests of Kodagu, but they are found only in the coffee estates. Hence, ideally any...
Zarina Sannu Mallangada says: “As a Kodava, I am privileged not to be bound or bundled by something called religion and it gives me both an edge to privacy while freedom to watch and...
The final match of Biddatanda Cup Hockey Tournament will be played between Paradanda and Chendanda teams at Napoklu in Kodagu (Coorg) district of Karnataka on May 14 (Sunday). The 21st edition of the Kodava...
By P.T. Bopanna Is the Kodagu (Coorg) district administration headed by deputy commissioner Richard Vincent D’Souza responsible for the mess in tackling the tribal issue at Diddalli? What was essentially a humanitarian issue of...
