Audi-A6, costing Rs 1.3 crore is going to be the most talked about subject at Friday’s wedding of Karthik Gowda, son of Union minister Sadananda Gowda in Coorg. The system of dowry is almost...
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 P.T. Bopanna Is the Kodagu MP Prathap Simha missing in action even as the people of Kodagu are on the verge of losing their privilege to own guns without license? The silence...
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,...
The Bengaluru police have ‘pressurised’ renowned dancer and yoga exponent Yamini Muthanna (in picture) against the filing of the first information report (FIR) in connection with the assault on her teenage son by the...
By P.T. Bopanna A public interest litigation (PIL) questioning the exemption given to Kodavas (Coorgs) and Jamma land-owners in Coorg district under the Arms Act was disposed of by the Karnataka High Court on...
By Maj Gen C K Karumbaya, SM. (Retd.) This is in response to the article- ‘Tipu Sultan: a secular internationalist, not a bigot’ by Muzaffar Assadi, which appeared in ‘The Hindu’ dated September 27,2015...
By Mookonda Kushalappa I happened to be reading an article in a national newspaper titled ‘Tipu Sultan: a secular internationalist, not a bigot’ (September 27, 2015). The first thing that came to my mind...
Raj Chengappa, Group Editorial Director of India Today, was on Saturday elected President of the Editors Guild of India. Hailing from the Baddana Kodagu Gowda family, Chengappa started his journalistic career in a Bengaluru...
By P.T. Bopanna Karnataka’s rural development and panchayat raj minister H K Patil has been quoted as saying that there were bonded labourers, especially involving migrants, in the coffee estates located in the coffee...
