I will deviate a short course from Bengaluru and include stories from neighbouring cities.This time its from Kodagu land.
So there is lush green remote part of Kodagu called Kakkabe. It houses Tippu Sultan's notorious palace which the people of the land kept in its neglected state largely due to the immoral activities Tippu carried our there against local women. There is an underground tunnel about 20 kms long connecting this palace to the palace in Madikeri. Tippu and his palace is not my point of talk here. Coming back to Kakkabe, the place now house various homestays and yet has a quaint remote feel about it. Also you'll not catch mobile network in many parts of this town. Adds to the remoteness.
So Kakkabe also houses the famed Igguthappa Temple. The background of this temple is the beautiful set Thadiyandamol - the 2nd largest peak in western ghats/Coorg. this entire hillock has thick forest and on the other side of it is Kerala land. My story starts with these government forests. The land is called paisaari meaning government land , by the locals. The land after the rains is used by local youth living around the temples (comprising largely of non-coorgs) to grow the contraband - Gaanja . The remote location and the tough accessibility by road makes it tough for the police to know what is happening here unless of course the growers had a bad rat among them. The flower blooms and is dried and powdered and sold of mostly to molpahs (who are in quite large numbers in Kakkabe).
The next stage of packaging and distribution is taken care off by them. the route of distribution sis mostly Mumbai via Mangalore/Kerala. Its via Kerala if there is a risk of getting it through Coorg. All you have to do is trek 8-10 kms over Thadiyandamol and you reach Kerala.
Yes, people have got caught thanks to the odd mole in the team. 5 years back a youth reported to police and cops came and burnt 5 odd acres of the field. The youth was its rumoured later murdered and thrown off to the Kakkabe river.
I was baffled not by the fact that Ganja grew in my backyard but by the irony that Coorg youth pay a heavy sum for the same stuff on streets of MG road when actually its growing in their avva/ajja's homes!
Of course everything above is fictional and bears no resemblance to any person living or dead!
And drugs is not a great way to live life.
I have never drugged and never will. This was a story worth telling though. Agree?
So there is lush green remote part of Kodagu called Kakkabe. It houses Tippu Sultan's notorious palace which the people of the land kept in its neglected state largely due to the immoral activities Tippu carried our there against local women. There is an underground tunnel about 20 kms long connecting this palace to the palace in Madikeri. Tippu and his palace is not my point of talk here. Coming back to Kakkabe, the place now house various homestays and yet has a quaint remote feel about it. Also you'll not catch mobile network in many parts of this town. Adds to the remoteness.
So Kakkabe also houses the famed Igguthappa Temple. The background of this temple is the beautiful set Thadiyandamol - the 2nd largest peak in western ghats/Coorg. this entire hillock has thick forest and on the other side of it is Kerala land. My story starts with these government forests. The land is called paisaari meaning government land , by the locals. The land after the rains is used by local youth living around the temples (comprising largely of non-coorgs) to grow the contraband - Gaanja . The remote location and the tough accessibility by road makes it tough for the police to know what is happening here unless of course the growers had a bad rat among them. The flower blooms and is dried and powdered and sold of mostly to molpahs (who are in quite large numbers in Kakkabe).
The next stage of packaging and distribution is taken care off by them. the route of distribution sis mostly Mumbai via Mangalore/Kerala. Its via Kerala if there is a risk of getting it through Coorg. All you have to do is trek 8-10 kms over Thadiyandamol and you reach Kerala.
Yes, people have got caught thanks to the odd mole in the team. 5 years back a youth reported to police and cops came and burnt 5 odd acres of the field. The youth was its rumoured later murdered and thrown off to the Kakkabe river.
I was baffled not by the fact that Ganja grew in my backyard but by the irony that Coorg youth pay a heavy sum for the same stuff on streets of MG road when actually its growing in their avva/ajja's homes!
Of course everything above is fictional and bears no resemblance to any person living or dead!
And drugs is not a great way to live life.
I have never drugged and never will. This was a story worth telling though. Agree?
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