By P.T. Bopanna The back-to-back earthquakes reported in Kodagu (Coorg) district of Karnataka in the last few days has led to panic in the district because the killer landslides which struck the area in...
By P.T. Bopanna The needle of suspicion is on a BJP MP from Karnataka for masterminding a new railway project from Shravanabelagola to Madikeri in Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka. Sources said the BJP...
By P.T. Bopanna The plans of the BJP government headed by Basavaraj Bommai (in picture) in Karnataka to enact a controversial legislation to convert farm lands for non-agriculture purposes, could spell disaster for Kodagu...
By P.T. Bopanna Residents of Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka have not taken kindly to a proposal by the Dabur group to convert a coffee estate into a school campus in an ecologically sensitive...
By P.T. Bopanna Bowing to pressure from the Kerala timber lobby, the BJP government in Karnataka headed by B.S. Yediyurappa has rejected the Kasturirangan report to conserve the Western Ghats. This is a tragic...
By P.T. Bopanna The Kodagu (Coorg) district administration headed by deputy commissioner Annies Joy (in picture) has launched the ‘second assault’ on Raja Seat, the famous tourist spot at Madikeri, by deploying excavators. Annies,...
By P.T. Bopanna Dr S.V. Narasimhan (in picture), an avid bird-watcher and medical practitioner from Virajpet in Coorg, makes it a point to send me hand-painted wildlife message cards every year without fail. This year...
A CRY FROM THE HEART From: Air Marshal K.C. Cariappa (Retd), Madikeri, Kodagu To: The Honorable Prime Minister of India, New Delhi I write this plea on behalf of my fellow citizens of Kodagu (Coorg), a...
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...
By P.T. Bopanna The Congress government in Karnataka headed by chief minister Siddaramaiah is engaged in a diabolical game plan to remove the ‘deemed forest’ tag from devarakadus (sacred groves) in Kodagu (Coorg) district...
