Category: C.P.Belliappa’s Column

By: C.P.  Belliappa Kodavas ( Coorgs) are a micro-minority community in India, who live in Kodagu district (Coorg) in Karnataka State.  It is estimated that there are about 150000 ethnic Kodavas within and outside...

By C.P. Belliappa It was in 1961 that I joined Loyola College in Chennai for my PUC.  A couple of days after I joined and settled in my hostel room, there was a knock...

By C.P. Belliappa It was the last week of December of 1965.  All of us were at home in Gonikoppal during the term break.  My grandmother had taken a parike (vow) to perform Satyanarayana...

By C.P. Belliappa Koothanda M. Somaiah was born in around 1890s.  Right from a young age he displayed a mind of his own.  He was good in his studies and excelled in sports.  Somaiah...

By C.P. Belliappa Dr Subarna De, an eco-critic and an early-academic, writes about Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka in her scholarly essay titled “Rooted in Hills, Rivers, Forests, and Land: Reading Stories from Coorg,”...

By C.P. Belliappa Charles, Prince of Wales, the heir to the throne of United Kingdom, has visited India several times.  During his visit to India in 1980, one of the states where he was...

By C.P. Belliappa While cleaning and oiling the guns in preparation for Kailpodh, the festival of arms, I noticed something interesting on the butt of one of the oldest guns in the house.  It’s...

By C.P. Belliappa My book ‘Victoria Gowramma: The Lost Princess of Coorg’, first published in December 2009, has in the past 10 plus years, generated great deal of interest in the creative and academic...

By C P Belliappa Quantum physics deals with the behaviour of subatomic particles and is arguably the most complex branch of theoretical physics.  I do not profess to understand this highly abstract subject but...

By C P Belliappa The first coffee estate in Coorg, named Mercara Estate, was started in 1854 by J. Fowler.  By 1906 Coorg had nearly 33,000 acres under coffee, cultivated both by the English...