Category: C.P.Belliappa’s Column

By C.P. Belliappa It has been a series of serendipitous discovery ever since I started researching and reconstructing the story of Victoria Gowramma.  As I wrote, I stumbled upon, quite fortuitously, on several hitherto...

By C.P. Belliappa Dr Nima Poovaya-Smith (in picture) was awarded the prestigious Order of the British Empire (OBE) in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.  I am sure she is the first Kodavathi to receive...

By: C.P. Belliappa Tipu Sultan is all set to haunt Kodagu once again this November.  However, what is even more disturbing is the efforts of a senior and once respected politician of Kodagu Mr...

By C.P. Belliappa My maternal grandfather, Biddanda Ponnappa Mandappa, lived in Palangala village near Virajpet.  I remember Palangala during my childhood days as a remote place, which took more than half a day to...

By C.P. Belliappa As an 8th grader in the US, Caelan Konganda’s class teacher encouraged the students to write a short novel.  How cool is that for a class project!  14-year-old Caelan took on...

(By: C.P. Belliappa) My maternal uncle, Col Biddanda M Chengappa, was 24-years-old when he joined the Army in 1941.  After a brief training, he got his commission as a Second Lieutenant.  World War II...

By C.P. Belliappa  It was in January 1949 that twenty-year-old Biddanda Leela (in picture with field marshal Cariappa and Sardar Patel) graduated in Home Science from Lady Irwin College, New Delhi.  She had travelled...

“CONSTITUTION OF INDIA (…And how I got my tricycle!) By C.P. Belliappa It was in December 1946, that a Constituent Assembly was constituted, and it took 3 years for the august body to draft...

“Book on Rev. Georg Richter (Review by: C.P. Belliappa) It is well-known that Reverend Richter left an indelible mark on Coorg through his contribution in the field of education. Equally important are his recordings...

“WHEN GOD BOWLS A GOOGLY A Review By: C.P. Belliappa Soon after purchasing the book – ‘When God Bowls A Googly’ – by Ashwath Aiyappa, I flipped the pages and read the ‘Dedication’ to...