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...
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...
By P. T. Bopanna* Sometime during the late 1970s, General Cariappa (he was conferred the rank of Field Marshal in 1986) visited our home in Athur village, near Gonikoppal, Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka. Prior to...
By P.T. Bopanna Finally, Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka has a credible leader from the Kodava community who has emerged as the ‘tallest’ leader of the Congress in the hill district. Former additional...
By P.T. Bopanna People of Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka should be grateful to the previous DC Annies Joy (in picture) for putting in place the infrastructure for treating Covid-19 patients. Having been one of...
By P.T. Bopanna* Nearly half a century ago, I had the ‘privilege’ of visiting industrialist Anand Mahindra’s bungalow in Karnataka’s Kodagu (Coorg) district. The Mahindra bungalow, located near Nagarahole forest in Kutta, is in...
By P.T. Bopanna Kodava (Coorg) beauty and south India’s highest paid actress Rashmika Mandanna (in picture wearing traditional Kodava sari) is being shown by Google search as the National Crush of India. If you...
By P.T. Bopanna Having covered several Aero India shows in Bengaluru, my fan moment came when I got the opportunity to meet the legendary Russian test pilot Viktor Pugachev (in picture) in 1998. ...
By P.T. Bopanna In his last column for my website www.coorgtourisminfo.com, writer C.P. Belliappa had mentioned about the first visit of Prince Charles to India in 1980. This brought back to memory, my own...
By P.T. Bopanna Kodagu-born Maneyapanda Appaiah Ganapathy (in picture), IPS, has been appointed as the director general of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). The 1986 batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre has...
