By P.T. Bopanna For the second year in a row, the unique Kodava family hockey festival has been cancelled. While the festival was cancelled last year in the wake of unprecedented floods and landslides,...
By P.T. Bopanna The Kodagu (Coorg) district administration headed by deputy commissioner Annies Joy (in picture) has to be commended for raising up to the challenge posed by the coronavirus, close on the heels...
The newly launched book ‘My Coorg Chronicles’ traces the journalistic journey of P.T. Bopanna, his foray into writing books, his activism, and importantly his efforts to chronicle various facets of Kodagu (Coorg) district in...
By P.T. Bopanna In India’s homestays capital of Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka, the district administration’s periodic threats to close down illegal homestays have become a joke. The latest warning has come from Kodagu deputy...
By P.T. Bopanna Is the B.S. Yediyurapp-led BJP government a ‘curse’ or a blessing for the people of Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka? While the people of Kodagu welcomed the Yediyurappa government’s decision to stop...
The late Chonira B. Muthamma, the first woman Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer in the country, is perhaps the most inspiring Kodava woman ever who will be remembered for her intellectual prowess and courage....
The authorities in Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka seem to be in deep slumber and have failed to take up permanent restoration of major highways damaged in the landslides in the last two years. This...
By P.T. Bopanna Are the so-called Kodava leaders demanding ST tag for Kodavas (Coorgs) have factored in a backlash from the existing Scheduled Tribes? Instead of getting the ST tag, the Kodavas could end...
Justice A.S. Bopanna, first judge from Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka to be elevated to the Supreme Court of India, is the ‘Coorg Person of the Year, 2019’. Ajjikuttira Somaiah Bopanna (in picture), aged 60,...
By P.T. Bopanna The plans of the Modi government to set up a mini airport near Kushalanagar in Kodagu (Coorg) district of Karnataka is a half-baked idea as the land identified for the airstrip...
