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...
Vehicular traffic between Karnataka and Kerala through Kodagu was paralyzed after a portion of the highway caved in near Virajpet on Thursday in view of the heavy downpour battering Kodagu for the last few...
By P.T. Bopanna Will Machimada Ravindra succeed in replacing K.G. Bopaiah, sitting Virajpet MLA, as the BJP’s candidate in the next Karnataka Assembly elections? The supporters of Ravindra, former Kodagu BJP unit president, have...
By P.T. Bopanna* There is bad news for Indian coffee as the Chinese have started converting their main tea growing areas into coffee plantations. China which has of late been flexing its muscles and...
Author: P.T. Bopanna Title: The Romance of Indian Coffee Publisher: Prism Books Pvt Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2011 Title: Coorg: Land of Beauty and Valour Publisher: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2010 Title: Coorg...
Writer Devaiah Bopanna’s post on Facebook generates over 6,000 likes, 1,824 shares and 630 comments. In his FB post, Devaiah (in picture), who is a creative writer with Mumbai-headquartered All India Bakchod (AIB), a...
By P.T. Bopanna Will the renewed demand for Gorkhaland in West Bengal have its echo in Kodagu (Coorg) district of Karnataka? Though the demand for a separate Coorg State is unlikely to pick up...
By P.T. Bopanna The Congress-led Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka which had rejected the Kasturirangan report apparently to mobilise funds from the timber lobby for Assembly polls, has been cornered by the Modi government at...
By P.T. Bopanna Probably for the first time, gentlemen planters and their lovely ladies, participated in a protest march in Kodagu (Coorg). Normally, the hurly-burly of protest politics is not their cup of tea,...
By P.T. Bopanna It will not be an exaggeration to say that elephants do not live anymore in the forests of Kodagu, but they are found only in the coffee estates. Hence, ideally any...
