Category: Coorg News

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...

‘Discover Coorg Video’, the first full-fledged DVD on Coorg, has been launched. The DVD features tourist spots, homestays, Coorg jewellery, Kodava family hockey festival, facilities for golf in Coorg, and the unique culture of...

Dr. Kanathanda Manjula Aiyappa (in picture), an agriculture scientist, explains in simple language all that you wanted to know about the coffee ‘out-turn test’ which has become a sort of headache for the coffee...