Category: Coorg News

By P.T. Bopanna Actress Rashmika Mandanna’s tweet thanking the people of Kodagu (Coorg) and the news portal www.coorgtourisminfo.com for selecting her as Coorg Person of the Year has created a huge social media buzz....

Pan-India actress and ‘National Crush of India’ Rashmika Mandanna is Coorg Person of the Year, 2022. Rashmika, hailing from Virajpet in Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka, was selected Coorg Person of the Year in...

Olympian M.P. Ganesh, who captained the Indian hockey team and was honoured with the Padma Shri by President Ram Nath Kovind (in picture), is Coorg Person of the Year, 2021. Mollera Poovaiah Ganesh, hailing...

By P.T. Bopanna I am putting together a new website to feature the unique culture of the Kodavas (Coorgs) in Karnataka State. www.kodavas.in is my seventh website. My main intention of starting the website...

By: C.P. Belliappa In 1841, two wives of the exiled raja of Coorg – Chikka Veerarajendra –  added two daughters to his brood of children.   Of the two girls, Gowramma became well-known as Queen...

Star Indian badminton player and Olympian Ashwini Ponnappa is the ‘Coorg Person of the year, 2017’. What clinched the title of Coorg Person besides her sporting achievements was Ashwini’s decision to marry a fellow...

Kodagu-born M.R. Poovamma, winner of the 2015 Arjuna award for her contributions in the field of athletics, is the ‘Coorg Person of the Year, 2015”. Machettira Raju Poovamma, aged 25, won the gold medal...

By P.T. Bopanna Ammathi is a one-horse town near Virajpet in Kodagu (Coorg). Noted writer Kavery Nambisan, who also heads the Tata Coffee-run hospital in the town, has aptly described the town as follows:...

Do some of the homestay owners in Coorg indulging in nefarious activities like flesh trade and gambling? In a shocking disclosure, Kodagu superintendent of police Varthika Katiyar (in picture) has admitted that illegal activities...

Ramesh Rao, Managing Director of Bengaluru-based Scion Advertising, who died in an air crash on Saturday in Coorg, was involved in another air crash two years ago when his two-seater aircraft crashed in the...