Hockey Olympian M. P. Ganesh from Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka has been recommended for Padma Shri award. Mollera Poovaiah Ganesh, aged 73, was the captain of the Indian hockey team and won the Arjuna...
By P.T. Bopanna If I had known beforehand how difficult it was to produce a documentary, I would not have ventured into the project. Producing a documentary is a complex process and one has...
By P.T. Bopanna Kodavas, a microscopic community hailing from Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka, were once known for their leadership qualities. So much so, Kodagu came to be known as the ‘Land of the Generals’....
By P.T. Bopanna Veteran journalist C.M. Ramachandra (94) (in picture), former head of The Hindu newspaper in Karnataka, passed away on Friday. He wrote the foreword for my bestselling book ‘Rise and Falls of...
By P.T. Bopanna I had never imagined I would be an author one day. As they say, life is sometimes stranger than fiction. I wish to go back into my childhood to give an insight...
By P.T. Bopanna I first came to Mumbai 40 years ago as a jobless youth. It was at the instance of my cousin Satish Ganapathy I left my native Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka and...
By P.T. Bopanna Dr. Sowmya Dechamma , Associate Professor at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad has been awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship for the year 2019-2020. She will be hosted by the...
By P.M. Belliappa (in picture wearing suit), IAS (Retd)* Had I not gone to Cambridge, I may not have met Venki (Nobel laureate), and my life would have been poorer for that. “Cambridge University...
By P.T. Bopanna ‘The Story of Kaveri’, a short film directed by ace ad film director K.M. Ayappa, in which Nanjamma Chinnappa (in picture with her husband Boverianda Chinnappa) played the role of Kaveri,...
By P.T. Bopanna (in picture) Coorg is not an ideal place for selling books as there are no regular book shops. Though there are no exclusive book shops, a few departmental store owners have...
