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...
By P.T. Bopanna By staying the ethnographic and socio-economic survey of Kodavas under way in Kodagu, Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah has given the impression that he is dancing to the tune of maverick politician...
By P.T. Bopanna Close on the heels of cutting down 50,000 trees in Coorg to make way for the high-tension power transmission line to supply power to Kerala, a new project has been...
Coorg-born international model Dayana Erappa has made it to the coveted cover of the Kingfisher Calendar 2017. In an interview to www.www.coorgnews.in, Dayana said: “I did the calendar shoot directly without any audition or...
By P.T. Bopanna The Modi government’s demonetization has come as a blessing in disguise for Kodagu, though it has caused a lot of distress to the people. The only silver lining is the...
By P.T. Bopanna The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka has clamped prohibitory orders in Kodagu district for celebrating at gun point the birth anniversary of 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan on November...
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...
