The newly released book ‘Dateline Coorg’ is a compilation of articles on Kodagu (Coorg) written by senior journalist P.T. Bopanna over the last two decades.
The success of his last book ‘Rise and Fall of the Coorg State’, which went into a reprint within two months of its release, prompted him to bring out ‘Dateline Coorg’. The book also contains the text of the full bench judgement of the Karnataka High Court on the controversial Jamma lands in Kodagu.
The author was one of the first to report on the Union government’s move in 1993 to withdraw the exemption given to Kodavas (Coorgs) and Jamma-holders to possess firearms without licence. The Centre wanted to withdraw the privilege after guns from Kodagu reached the hands of the banned Maoists in Andhra Pradesh.
The articles in the book are diverse in nature, ranging from serious issues pertaining to separate statehood for Kodagu, Jamma land tenure, gun licence exemption, looting of forest wealth, etc., to subjects like the experiments involving the DNA study to explore the origin of the Kodavas and the moves to develop a script for the Kodava language by a German.
Published by Rolling Stone Publications, Bangalore, the book is priced at Rs 100.
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I even searched it in indiaplaza, flipkart.com etc…