#COORG GUN ISSUE: PRATHAP SIMHA, MP, MISSING IN ACTION
By P.T. Bopanna Is the Kodagu MP Prathap Simha missing in action even as the people of Kodagu are on the verge of losing their privilege to own guns without license? The silence...
Author: Coorg News
WHY THE ARMS EXEMPTION FOR THE COORGS IS JUSTIFIED?
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,...
ATTACK ON YAMINI MUTHANNA’S SON: POLICE FAIL TO REGISTER FIR
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...
PIL QUESTIONS GUN PRIVILEGE ENJOYED BY COORGS (KODAVAS)
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...
TIPU SULTAN WAS NEITHER A NATIONALIST, NOR A SECULARIST
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...
COORG-BORN RAJ CHENGAPPA IS PRESIDENT OF THE EDITORS GUILD OF INDIA
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...
BONDED LABOURERS IN COFFEE ESTATES AND SIDDARAMAIAH’S ANNA BHAGYA
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...
1965 INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR: HERO FROM COORG EMERGES FROM A BOOK
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...
REMEMBERING VETERAN COORG COACH C.V.SHANKAR
By P.T. Bopanna C.V. Shankar, veteran sports coach of Kodagu district, popularly known as ‘Shankar Swamy’, who passed away at Madikeri in Coorg ten years ago aged 85 years (in picture above with cricketer Robin...
COORG-BORN KAVERI KALANITHI IS INDIA’S HIGHEST PAID CORPORATE
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...
