Category: Features/Newsmakers

By P.T. Bopanna In a way, Rohan Bopanna becoming the oldest world No. 1 in men’s tennis doubles history, is also a proud moment for me because I had selected him ‘Coorg Person of...

By P.T. Bopanna Padma Shri award winner, Rani Machaiah, who is an exponent of the Ummathat folk dance art of Kodagu (Coorg), is Coorg Person of the Year, 2023. Rani Machaiah Iymudiyanda has been...

By P.T. Bopanna The exercise to select the Coorg Person of the Year title, throws up the names of people whose work go unnoticed. One such unsung hero is K.A. Kushalappa (Kelapanda) who belongs...

By P.T. Bopanna India may have lost the ICC World Cup to Australia, but this tweet by Mumbai-based writer Devaiah Bopanna is winning the hearts of the twitterati. Devaiah tweeted: “We have already taken...

By P.T. Bopanna Sometime during 2020, I was one among the journalists selected for felicitation by chief minister B.S. Yediyurppa as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Press Club of Bangalore. At...

By P.T. Bopanna Though Facebook was conceived by a man (Mark Zuckerberg), it sometimes behaves like a woman. Facebook seems to suffer from severe mood swings. Apologies to women because I sound misogynistic, though...

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...

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* Sometime during the late 1970s, General Cariappa (he was conferred the rank of Field Marshal in 1986) visited our home in Athur village, near Gonikoppal, Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka. Prior to...

By P.T. Bopanna Finally, Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka has a credible leader from the Kodava community who has emerged as the ‘tallest’ leader of the Congress in the hill district.   Former additional...