By B.C. Thimmaiah Former IAS Officer and Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, Rathi Vinay Jha, a Kodavathi from Codanda family, has initiated a project to create a Virtual Museum on Kodava Heritage and Culture. Called ‘Sandooka,’ the Virtual Museum will be a repository of information on the heritage and culture of Kodavas through…
Call to help preserve memories of a vanishing people While modernisation has opened many opportunities for the well-qualified, it has also distanced the young from their heritage and culture. This is even more accentuated amongst Kodavas living outside Kodagu. There is a need to establish a platform where young Kodavas could learn and keep in…
Madikeri: Rathi Vinay Jha, former Secretary, Union Ministry of Tourism, in an article in the Coffeeland News Weekly, published from Madikeri, Kodagu, in its 26th November 2021 issue, has regretted the inordinate delay in completing the Kodava Heritage Centre civil work and wondered why Kodavas did not resonate to this work like the Parsis did….
‘It should be a living museum, a conservatory of information on Kodavas, a place where researchers can seek knowledge’ A Kodava Heritage Centre is being constructed at Vidyanagar near Madikeri, Kodagu District and construction has picked up only now though the idea was conceptualised way back in early 2000 when Rathi Vinay Jha, an IAS…
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