By Shrividya Somanna “I did not expect to be picked up by Punjab Kings. It was not influence nor contacts that got me here. I always believed that one should focus on the present...
By P.T. Bopanna Is Pratap Simha Lok Sabha member for Bengaluru-Mysore expressway? This is the impression one gets by going through the posts on Facebook. It is time the Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha member stops...
By P.T. Bopanna Even as D. Roopa, IPS, and Rohini Sindhuri, IAS, are engaged in a catfight on Facebook, I recall with fondness my first day as a journalist which involved interviewing the beautiful...
By P.T. Bopanna Being a journalist, I was shocked to go through the Bengaluru-headquartered Deccan Herald newspaper published on February 6. In the guise of news, the paper had published an advertisement on page...
By P.T. Bopanna When India Today’s Raj Chengappa (in picture) managed to get an exclusive interview with Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani in December, Chengappa must have thought it was sort of a journalistic...
P.T. Bopanna Though Karnataka has a ‘double engine’ government, the Kodagu (Coorg) district administration is in the ICU. This despite the fact that Kodagu is a bastion of the saffron party. For those who...
By P.T. Bopanna Zee Kannada television channel has stooped low by resorting to cheap gimmicks to target popular Indian actress Rashmika Mandanna who hails from Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka. In one of their...
By P.T. Bopanna This reporter who used to cover the crime beat for The Times of India in the 1980s, recalls how a Bengaluru court created judicial history in India by accepting DNA fingerprinting...
By P.T. Bopanna Coorg-born Rashmika Mandanna, one of the top actresses from South India, has been unfairly targeted by trolls in her home state of Karnataka for failing to watch the blockbuster Kannada movie...
By P.T. Bopanna Activist and actor Chetan Kumar who has crossed swords with Kantara film director Rishab Shetty, had in 2017 led an agitation of tribals (in picture) in Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka against...
