Nadikerianda Ranee Vijaya Kuttaiah

Nadikerianda Ranee Vijaya Kuttaiah A Kalakshetra trained classical dancer, culinary expert, a psychologist and an author of three bestselling cookbooks.

Family

Father

Kotera P Chinnappa

Mother

Kotera (Chembanda)Accavva

Husband

Nadikerianda Kuttaiah

Son

Nadikerianda Devaiah

Family Tree

www.kodavaclan.com

Education

She was a graduate from M.S.University, Baroda.  She did her masters in America in the 1960s.

Career

A multi talented Ranee was an accomplished kathakalli and Brathnatyam Dancer who lived in Nilgris. Her husband died at a young age and that is when she gave up dancing and started writing short stories. She had worked as a lecturer in Maharani’s College,Bangalore. She worked as a Public Relations manager for Ford U.S.A.

Achievements

• As a Kalakshethra dancer she performed all over the state.
• She was the advertising filmmaker and author of three bestselling cookbooks. She re-launched two of them at the ITC Windsor, Bengaluru.
• “Cuisine from Coorg” the first of her cookery series was first published in 2000.
• As a culinary expert she.taught the intricacies of coorg cuisine to the chefs of the Taj Gateway and Taj West End hotel,Bangalore.
• She was an avid Golfer and writer of Short stories.
• She wrote books on Tamil Nadu and Karnataka cuisines.
• She started a company called Shadow Light Co-ordinators and would do high-end food and fashion shoots in Bangalore.

Despite all her sophistication, she remained a Kodavathi at heart, most often elegantly dressed in a traditional long-sleeved jacket and Kodavathi style sari, in all her public appearances. She died on 17^th October 2017.