By P.T. Bopanna The appointment of Charulata Somal (in picture), a committed environmentalist, as the new deputy commissioner of Kodagu (Coorg), has raised a lot of hope among the people of this hill district...
By P.T. Bopanna Charulata Somal (in picture), IAS, the first IAS officer to have gone on an expedition to Antarctica, on Saturday took over as the new deputy commissioner of Kodagu (Coorg) district. Interestingly, two previous DCs...
By P.T. Bopanna Even as Kodagu district is facing a plethora of problems following three years of back-to-back landslides, the district is without a full-time deputy commissioner. After the previous DC Annies Joy went...
By P.T. Bopanna Kodagu deputy commissioner Annies Joy (in picture) who served the district in one of the critical moments is taking a leave of absence to join her husband who has been recently...
By P.T. Bopanna I had the rare privilege of crossing the paths of two outstanding individuals, that too a father and son, in my journalistic career. When I was covering the crime beat in...
By P.T. Bopanna* Contrary to the narrative being sought to be created by Kodava activists and the Sangh Parivar, there is no evidence of any massacre of Kodavas (Coorgs) in 1785 by the ruler...
By P.T. Bopanna* I have begun work on my new book ‘Coorg Role Models’. In the book, I plan to profile the winners of the ‘Coorg Person of the Year’ title. So far, 17...
By P.T. Bopanna Bowing to pressure from the Kerala timber lobby, the BJP government in Karnataka headed by B.S. Yediyurappa has rejected the Kasturirangan report to conserve the Western Ghats. This is a tragic...
Dr Sanjana Kattera, Coorg Person of the Year, 2020 Dr Sanjana Kattera (in picture), a corona warrior who was part of the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial team, is ‘Coorg Person of the Year, 2020’....
By P.T. Bopanna* Nearly half a century ago, I had the ‘privilege’ of visiting industrialist Anand Mahindra’s bungalow in Karnataka’s Kodagu (Coorg) district. The Mahindra bungalow, located near Nagarahole forest in Kutta, is in...
