Hi,

I’m Nitin Kushalappa M P

(Mookonda ‘Nitin’ Kushalappa).

Nitin Kushalappa M P (born Mookonda Poonacha Nitin Kushalappa, aka Mookonda Kushalappa) is an engineer by profession and author by passion.

Books :

8. DAKSHIN: SOUTH INDIAN MYTHS AND FABLES RETOLD, 2023, Puffin books. (click here)

7. THE GANDHI OF KODAGU 2020 Codava Makkada Coota (Madikeri) Translated into English from Iythichanda Ramesh Uthappa’s Kannada original Kodagina Gandhi, a biography of Freedom fighter Pandyanda Belliappa. (click here)

6. THE HOUSE OF AWADH 2019 Bigfoot (New Delhi) Fictional novella (outside the Kodagu series, and based on the Indian epic Ramayana). (click here)

5. THE MAJOR WHO KEPT HIS COOL 2019 Codava Makkada Coota (Madikeri) Biography of an army war hero, Lt Col Puttichanda S Ganapathi. (click here)

4. KODAGU PRINCIPALITY V/S BRITISH EMPIRE 2018 Codava Makkada Coota (Madikeri) Local history of Kodagu (Coorg) in 1834. (click here)

3. 1785 COORG – TIPU’S DIARY IN KODAGU 2018 Codava Makkada Coota (Madikeri) Local history of Kodagu (Coorg) between 1766 and 1799. (click here)

2. LONG AGO IN COORG 2013 Createspace (USA), 2014 Pothi books (Chennai); Local history of Kodagu (Coorg) after 1800. (click here)

1. THE EARLY COORGS, 2013 Createspace (USA), 2013 NotionPress (Chennai); Local history of Kodagu (Coorg) before 1600. (click here)

(ARE KODAVAS (COORGS) HINDU? Nitin was one of the six section contributors of this book, edited by P T Bopanna, in 2018, by Rolling Stone Publications)