By P.T. Bopanna “Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low caliber and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They...
By P.T. Bopanna The dominant Lingayat community is up in arms demanding ‘religious minority’ status as they claim they are not Hindus. Ironically, it was the Lingayat kings of Kodagu who had shoved Hinduism...
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...
Discredited politicians like former MLC A.K. Subbaiah are fishing in troubled waters to drum up support for squatters who have overnight occupied forest land inside the Diddalli Devamacchi Reserve Forest in Virajpet taluk. As...
By Roona Ballachanda Writer Roona (in picture) studied at Southern Illinois University, United States. Roona writes: I have been following some of the arguments for and against Tipu Sultan and the celebration of his...
By Dr Sowmya Dechamma As responsible elders in Kodava Society, I feel all of you can make a difference, although I don’t exactly know how. For me, Tipu Sultan has become more of an...
By Maj. Gen. Retd. C K Karumbaya, SM (in picture) The Karnataka government headed by chief minister Siddaramaiah should not squander tax payers’ money to celebrate Tipu Sultan’s birth anniversary, completely ignoring the sentiments...
Karnataka has committed grave injustice to Kodagu in the utilization of the Cauvery river water, though Kodagu is the birthplace of the Cauvery. The Rs 230-crore Harangi project has been conceived for the...
By P.T. Bopanna Is Theerthodbhava (gushing of water) from a small pond at the holy shrine of Talacauvery is merely a blind belief among the people of Coorg (Kodagu) in Karnataka? Maj Gen C...
By Sundar Muthanna THE BACKGROUND The Coorgs (Kodavas) of Kodagu (Coorg) district have a very unique aspect to their history, for hundreds of years they were farmers who cultivated land in times of peace,...
