Mandepanda Savitha Poovaiah, of Ammathi, is one among the few women wildlife photographers from Coorg. Born into the Mallengada clan at Badagarakeri near Birunani, the rich flora and fauna of her village enabled...
By P.T. Bopanna While working on my book ‘The Romance of Indian Coffee’, I spotted this Moplah girl (see picture) picking coffee berries at an estate in Coorg. She had light eyes which caught...
By P.T. Bopanna Ammathi is a one-horse town near Virajpet in Kodagu (Coorg). Noted writer Kavery Nambisan, who also heads the Tata Coffee-run hospital in the town, has aptly described the town as follows:...
By P.T. Bopanna Though she is a tough cop who has shown the local politicians their place, Kodagu SP Katiyar seems to forget that she is working in a democratic set-up and not a...
In a record of sorts, the first batch of the ‘Discover Coorg Video DVDs’, the first full-fledged DVD on Coorg, has been sold out within two months of its launch. The DVD produced...
Is the Kodagu district administration turning a blind eye to the criminal activities, including flesh trade that is going on in unauthorised Coorg homestays? Though senior Kodagu politician M.C. Nanaiah (in picture) had...
Do some of the homestay owners in Coorg indulging in nefarious activities like flesh trade and gambling? In a shocking disclosure, Kodagu superintendent of police Varthika Katiyar (in picture) has admitted that illegal...
Ramesh Rao, Managing Director of Bengaluru-based Scion Advertising, who died in an air crash on Saturday in Coorg, was involved in another air crash two years ago when his two-seater aircraft crashed in the...
In a record of sorts, Pemmanda R. Ganapathy, hailing from Kodagu, but currently living in San Francisco, United States, has perhaps become the first Indian to run all the major world marathons in a...
Karnataka’s principal chief conservator of forests G. V. Sugur has maintained that forest cover in Kodagu has increased, contrary to the perception that forests have been “disappearing” in the ecologically sensitive areas in the Western...
