By P.T. Bopanna With the BJP giving its ticket to controversial sitting MLA from Virajpet in Kodagu (Coorg) district, K.G. Bopaiah, the chances of Congress candidate A.S. Ponnanna (in picture), have brightened in the...
By P.T. Bopanna It is heartening to note that a Kodavathi (Coorg woman) is winning accolades for working towards green causes in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu. Somayanda Samantha Iyanna (in picture) is part...
By P.T. Bopanna Kodagu MLAs K.G Bopaiah and Appachu Ranjan are unlikely to be considered for ticket by the BJP to contest in the forthcoming election to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in the wake...
By P.T. Bopanna Having been a keen observer of Karnataka politics, I can vouch for the fact that whichever party uses the name of the 18th century Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan will surely lose...
By Shrividya Somanna After a successful run for about 22 years, Kodagu’s (Coorg) biggest hockey tournament is back with its 23rd edition with even more vigour. It will be hosted by Appachettolanda family. This...
By Shrividya Somanna “I did not expect to be picked up by Punjab Kings. It was not influence nor contacts that got me here. I always believed that one should focus on the present...
By P.T. Bopanna Is Pratap Simha Lok Sabha member for Bengaluru-Mysore expressway? This is the impression one gets by going through the posts on Facebook. It is time the Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha member stops...
By P.T. Bopanna Even as D. Roopa, IPS, and Rohini Sindhuri, IAS, are engaged in a catfight on Facebook, I recall with fondness my first day as a journalist which involved interviewing the beautiful...
By P.T. Bopanna Being a journalist, I was shocked to go through the Bengaluru-headquartered Deccan Herald newspaper published on February 6. In the guise of news, the paper had published an advertisement on page...
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...
