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. Here is an extract of the article in this context:
“Around 2003, I envisioned the need to initiate a project to set up a Kodava Heritage Centre. It was a time when Kodagu was slowly opening up to tourism. I felt that setting up a Heritage Centre would be ideal to showcase stories about our people, our history, customs and traditions. It would also be a research and documentation centre where our diaspora and our children could reach out to for information on the homeland.
