Tag: Kodagu

  • Ayya-Appa-Swamy Yeddy, Steady Go.

    Ayya-Appa-Swamy Yeddy, Steady Go.

    For the moment from Yeddy Steady go Karnataka politics has become about Ayya-Appa-Swamy In his book the Pregnant King Dr.Devdutt Pattnaik asks a question Who should rule the people those people who gambled their future? Or those people who could not keep their word? Now that Karnataka electoral drama is history and the media has…

  • A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya

    A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya

    Growing up in western coastal towns, Nagabana, the placement of Garadi all made me realize that the ethnic religious cult was very close to nature and revered nature. Unfortunately it is being devoured by the more powerful brahmanical cult. Interestingly Kalidasa’s Vikramuurvashiiya talks of Nakshatravana or the green patch. The legend of Urvashi also has…