The writer of this article is Arakere Jayaram (in picture), senior journalist and former chief of bureau of The Hindu, Bengaluru. Jayaram writes: The following is my response to the article by journalist P.T....
By Roona Uthappa Ballachanda The accusation by Facebook page ‘Connecting Kodavas’ that the article “Actress Nidhi: Intolerance To Coorg Women Marrying Non-Coorgs” is written with the aim of increasing TRP for www.coorgnews.in, is both...
By P.T. Bopanna Coorg-born Thaarak Ponnappa is all set to make waves in Sandalwood. This six-footer with an M. Tech degree is very passionate about acting. Hailing from Koothanda clan in Kodagu, Tharaak told...
By Roona Uthappa Ballachanda Kodavathi actress Nidhi Subbaiah recently announced her plans to get married. She sounded ecstatic in her description of their relationship and her fiancé’s proposal and one would assume that people...
Note: This article is an introduction to my proposed new book. By P.T. Bopanna Are Kodavas (Coorgs) Hindus? The answer is both ‘yes’ and ‘no’! If one defines Hinduism as a way of life,...
The popular homestays website www.coorghomestays.co.in, has been redesigned to make it more responsive and user-friendly for tourists visiting Coorg, the homestay capital of India. The website, started in 2010, is one of the five...
By P.T. Bopanna After 15 years of hard work and research, a Kodava couple has brought out a comprehensive dictionary in Kodava Takk (Kodava language). The project was conceived by Dr Boverianda C. Uthaiah...
By P.T. Bopanna Is the Kodagu district administration in Karnataka riding roughshod over planters, particularly ex-servicemen, to evict them from their land to make way for rehabilitating the Diddahalli tribals? The Virajpet tashildar Mahadevaswamy...
Renowned Indian cartoonist Nala Ponnappa, known for his offbeat tongue-in-cheek humour, is the ‘Coorg Person of the Year, 2016’. Ponnappa, whose cartoons appear in The Times of India, Bengaluru edition, was selected ‘Coorg Person...
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...
