MADIKERI: The two-day 'Kodava Ballya Namme' festival organised by the Karnataka Kodava Sahitya Academy at the Ammathi Kodava Samaja highlighted the need to protect Kodava culture and rituals. The ...

MADIKERI: Kodagu is beautiful and bountiful. The district is blessed with nature and culture, preserved and honoured by its people for generations. In recent times, cinema has taken the centre stage ...

Appanna was one of the elders that Ponnapa worked very closely with while researching her first book. His knowledge of the culture and very importantly, the Kodava language, is extraordinary; he ...

Madikeri: ‘Kodava Pusthaka Pathaya', an initiative of the Kodava Sahitya Academy to promote and preserve Kodava literature and culture through reading books, was launched by Virajpet MLA AS ...

The Pattole Palame (Silken Lore), originally compiled by the folklorist Nadikerianda Chinnappa in 1924, is considered a treasure trove of Kodava oral traditions, including songs, rituals, and stories ...

The Kodava Hockey Festival, which will be held from March 28 to April 27 across three grounds in Madikeri, Kodagu district, celebrates its 25th year, bringing together the Kodava community in an event ...

Karnataka’s Kodava community, believed to number less than 200,000, will soon have a museum showcasing its heritage. The Bengaluru-based India Foundation for the Arts, supported by Recaero India, a ...

Madikeri: The Kodava Ain Mane has been established in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. Ain Mane is the epicentre of the Kodava community culture. An Ain Mane is the ancestral house for different ...

Lush green landscapes, ethereal waterfalls, and aromatic coffee plantations... wouldn’t you like to be in Coorg every single day? Well, a delicious fragment of Kodava culture presented itself on our ...

The Kodava Samaj in Ponnampet of Kodagu district, about 225 km from Bengaluru, has banned all cake cutting and opening of champagne among other celebrations as it is not a part of the community’s ...

Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna have confirmed their upcoming wedding, choosing to honour both their cultural backgrounds through two separate ceremonies. The couple will celebrate their union ...

With Indian cuisine in focus both globally and locally, there has never been a better time to chronicle Indian culinary culture in all its diversity. Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal, herself the custodian ...