MAKING OF THE ‘DISCOVER COORG’ DOCUMENTARY
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...
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COORG PERSON OF THE YEAR STORY: CREATING ROLE MODELS
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’....
COORG WILL NOT MOURN THE DEMISE OF KUMARASWAMY GOVT
By P.T. Bopanna The failure of the JD (S)-Congress government headed by H.D. Kumaraswamy to complete the rehabilitation of people affected by last year’s floods and landslides in Kodagu (Coorg) is one of the...
CLOUD-SEEDING OPERATIONS PLANNED IN COORG ON JULY 24 AMID REPORTS OF FRESH LANDSLIDES
By P.T. Bopanna The Kumaraswamy government which is on its way out has no business to start cloud-seeding operations in Kodagu (Coorg) from July 24. With reports of landslides being reported at Jodupala near...
VETERAN JOURNALIST AND A FRIEND OF COORG, C.M. RAMACHANDRA, PASSES AWAY
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...
‘COORG COFFEE’ FACEBOOK PAGE DEDICATED TO AN ENGLISHMAN IS ALL SET TO COMPLETE 5 YEARS
By P.T. Bopanna While most of my dozen Facebook pages are Coorg-centric, my ‘Coorg Coffee’ page is perhaps the only one which has a pan Indian appeal. The page followed by over 1,500 people...
UNSAFE: SKIP COORG TILL END OF MONSOON. ROADS AROUND MADIKERI DEVELOP CRACKS
By P.T. Bopanna Most of the roads in and around Madikeri, the district headquarters of Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka, considered as the homestay capital of India, have started developing cracks, making it unsafe for...
LIFESTYLE: FACEBOOK COORG JEWELLERY PAGE FEATURES DISTINCTIVE JEWELLERY
By P.T. Bopanna I run a dozen pages on Facebook. Among the pages, one of the most popular pages is coorgjewellery.in. The page has over 3,200 followers. I created the page as an extension...
PANIC IN MADIKERI AS LOOSE MUD GIVES WAY ON HILLOCK BEHIND OLD PRIVATE BUS-STAND
Close on the heels of cracks being formed on Madikeri-Mangaluru highway at Katakeri following the downpour in Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka in the last couple of days, loose mud on Friday begun giving way...
COORG MP PRATAP SIMHA PLAYS DIRTY POLITICS BY LOBBYING FOR MYSURU-KUSHALANAGAR RAILWAY LINE
By P.T. Bopanna Kodagu (Coorg) MP Pratap Simha is playing dirty politics by lobbying for the Mysuru-Kushalanagar railway line, thereby betraying the massive mandate given by the people of Kodagu in the Lok Sabha...
