MAKING OF AN AUTHOR: A WRITER RECALLS HIS JOURNEY
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...
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TOP WOMEN OFFICIALS IN COORG TAKE ON THE NOTORIOUS TIMBER MAFIA
By P.T. Bopanna Two top women officials of Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka have sent shivers down the spine of the notorious timber mafia who were a law unto themselves all these years. The Kodagu...
TIMBER MAFIA UPSET WITH COORG DC FOR BANNING FELLING OF TREES TILL END OF MONSOON
By P.T. Bopanna The notorious timber mafia in Karnataka’s Kodagu (Coorg) district has not taken kindly to deputy commissioner Annies K. Joy’s (in picture) order banning felling of trees and transportation of timber and...
CHASING A DREAM: A JOURNALIST REVISITS MUMBAI AFTER 40 YEARS
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...
HAS COFFEE BOARD OVERSTEPPED ITS LIMITS IN FILING CASE AGAINST SALE OF EXPENSIVE CIVET COFFEE?
Has the Coffee Board overstepped its limits by filing a police complaint against Thamoo Poovaiah (in picture), who markets the expensive civet coffee under the brand name Ainmane? Thamoo Poovaiah, managing partner of Coorg...
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY? KHB OUTSOURCED FELLING OF TREES IN COORG TO ‘REDDY’ FROM ANDHRA
By P.T. Bopanna While welcoming the order of Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (in picture) to stop felling of over 800 trees in a landslide-prone area near Madikeri, the government should probe the ‘criminal...
TREE-FELLING AT RAJA’S SEAT: COORG DIST ADMIN HAS GOT ITS PRIORITIES MIXED UP
By P.T. Bopanna There is something seriously wrong with the Kodagu (Coorg) district administration which is axing trees to make way for an amusement park at Raja’s Seat in Madikeri city in Karnataka. Raja’s...
TOP COORG-BORN RESEARCHER WINS FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP
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...
KICK-BACK RUMOURS: LAME DUCK KUMARASWAMY GOVT APPROVES RS 91 CRORE PLAN FOR CLOUD SEEDING
By P.T. Bopanna In a diabolical exercise, the lame duck JD (S)-Congress government headed by H.D. Kumaraswamy in Karnataka has approved a Rs 91-crore plan for cloud seeding which could have a devastating effect...
AFTER INITIALLY BLOCKING, MODI GOVT CLEARS APPOINTMENT OF JUSTICE BOPANNA AS JUDGE SUPREME COURT
By P.T. Bopanna The Modi government which initially tried to block the appointment of Justice A.S. Bopanna (in picture), has finally cleared his name for appointment as judge of the Supreme Court after the...
