By Sundar Muthanna THE BACKGROUND The Coorgs (Kodavas) of Kodagu (Coorg) district have a very unique aspect to their history, for hundreds of years they were farmers who cultivated land in times of peace,...
The Bengaluru police have ‘pressurised’ renowned dancer and yoga exponent Yamini Muthanna (in picture) against the filing of the first information report (FIR) in connection with the assault on her teenage son by the...
By P.T. Bopanna A public interest litigation (PIL) questioning the exemption given to Kodavas (Coorgs) and Jamma land-owners in Coorg district under the Arms Act was disposed of by the Karnataka High Court on...
By Maj Gen C K Karumbaya, SM. (Retd.) This is in response to the article- ‘Tipu Sultan: a secular internationalist, not a bigot’ by Muzaffar Assadi, which appeared in ‘The Hindu’ dated September 27,2015...
Raj Chengappa, Group Editorial Director of India Today, was on Saturday elected President of the Editors Guild of India. Hailing from the Baddana Kodagu Gowda family, Chengappa started his journalistic career in a Bengaluru...
By P.T. Bopanna Karnataka’s rural development and panchayat raj minister H K Patil has been quoted as saying that there were bonded labourers, especially involving migrants, in the coffee estates located in the coffee...
But for a British writer, the heroics of the Coorg-born Ajjamada Boppayya Devayya, the only Indian Air Force officer to be awarded the Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) posthumously so far, would have remained unsung. It...
By P.T. Bopanna C.V. Shankar, veteran sports coach of Kodagu district, popularly known as ‘Shankar Swamy’, passed away at Madikeri in Coorg, on Thursday. Shankar, aged 85 (in picture above with cricketer Robin...
Coorg-born Kaveri Kalanithi, of Sun TV Networks Ltd., is India’s highest paid corporate executive, surpassing the salary of even the richest Indian Mukesh Ambani. This is the third time in a row that Kaveri...
#CoorgAllGirlsTrip Why should only men have all the fun? These women from Pachat village near Ammathi town in Coorg go on a week’s holiday every year. This time it is Kochi, Alleppy, Tiruvananthapuram, and...
