In this Indian name, the name Lankesh is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Gauri.
Gauri Lankesh
Gauri in 2012
Born
(1962-01-29)29 January 1962
Bangalore, Mysore State, India
Died
5 September 2017(2017-09-05) (aged 55)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Cause of death
Murder (gunshot wounds)
Occupation(s)
Activist, journalist
Employer
Lankesh Patrike
Spouse
Chidanand Rajghatta
Family
P. Lankesh (father) Indrajit Lankesh (brother) Kavitha Lankesh (sister)
Awards
Anna Politkovskaya Award
Gauri Lankesh (29 January 1962 – 5 September 2017) was an Indian activist and journalist from Bangalore, Karnataka. She worked as an editor in Lankesh Patrike, a Kannada weekly started by her father P. Lankesh, and ran her own weekly called Gauri Lankesh Patrike. She was murdered outside her home in Rajarajeshwari Nagar on 5 September 2017. At the time of her death, Gauri was known for being a critic of right-wing Hindu extremism. She was honoured with Anna Politkovskaya Award for speaking against right-wing Hindu extremism, campaigning for women's rights and opposing caste based discrimination.[1]
^"Gauri Lankesh honoured with Anna Politkovskaya Award". The Hindu. 5 October 2017. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
worked as an editor in Lankesh Patrike, a Kannada weekly started by her father P. Lankesh, and ran her own weekly called GauriLankesh Patrike. She was murdered...
weekly tabloid Lankesh Patrike. His sister Kavitha Lankesh is a filmmaker and his other sister GauriLankesh was a journalist/activist. Lankesh Patrike is...
publishers. Her father P. Lankesh founded the highly successful weekly tabloid Lankesh Patrike. She has two siblings, Indrajit and Gauri. Her brother is also...
order in favour of Indrajit Lankesh. Gauri started her own Kannada weekly called GauriLankesh Patrike. On 5 September 2017, Gauri was shot to death by unknown...
the broadcast category in the Hindi language. The list continues with GauriLankesh Award for Journalism, first Kuldip Nayar Journalism Award (2017), Ganesh...
published by HarperCollins. His marriage to activist and journalist GauriLankesh ended in a divorce. Chidanand Rajghatta on Times of India "World Press...
Dave Killed While Writing Story". NDTV. 23 August 2006. "Journalist GauriLankesh shot dead in Bengaluru". The Hindu. Retrieved 2017-01-22. "Tripura Journalist...
three protagonists, one of which is loosely based on slain journalist GauriLankesh. It was world premiered in 10th edition of Jagran Film Festival in Delhi...
2017 in connection with their jobs. Reporters Without Borders stated GauriLankesh a proponent of secularism and a critic of right-wing forces was shot...
composed in the 13th or 14th century, post-dating Basava. According to GauriLankesh, "Lingayats are followers of Basavanna," while Veerashaivism is a Vedic...
Cherevatenko (1956–), Russia 2017: Gulalai Ismail (1986–), Pakistan and GauriLankesh (1962–2017), India 2018: Svetlana Alexievich (1948–), Belarus and Binalakshmi...
Siddique Kappan gets 5 days bail to Visit his ailing mother in Kerala". GauriLankesh News. 15 February 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2022. "Kerala journo Siddique...
journalist GauriLankesh. Kalaskar visited Punalekar's office. Further, the CBI called the murders of Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi and GauriLankesh a "pre-planned...
Pooja celebration in Mangaluru on Sunday. Pramod Muthalik compared late GauriLankesh to a dog. On June 17, he said-"Two murders took place in Karnataka and...
have received pushback and protest from far-right groups. In 2017, GauriLankesh was assassinated by an unknown terrorist in her home. She was a journalist...
rationalists such as Narendra Dabholkar, M. M. Kalburgi and journalist GauriLankesh in the documentary mini-series Vivek-Reason by Anand Patwardhan. Short...
(2018). She has also written and produced For Gauri, a video presentation of her poem written for GauriLankesh. Sagar has curated international and national...
direct associations with individuals such as Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, GauriLankesh, Kanhaiya Kumar, Shehla Rashid and Umar Khalid, among others. On being...
Lohitashwa – actor Lohithaswa – actor and writer Kavitha Lankesh – writer and director GauriLankesh - journalist Vedhika Kumar – actress and model Chindodi...
Bangladesh Minority Watch. Its members have been suspected in the murder of GauriLankesh. In April 2022, HJS coordinator Chandru Moger urged people to boycott...
votes; the fewest of the five candidates. In 2019, after the death of GauriLankesh, Sharmila criticized the NDA government, accusing it of disregarding...
Speech on GauriLankesh issue". 12 September 2017. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2018 – via YouTube. "I Am Gauri: In Bengaluru...
2017). "Right wing spews venom on social media after Senior Journalist GauriLankesh is shot dead". Alt News. Retrieved 14 November 2019. Pande, Manisha...
"Farmers run over by Union Minister's convoy in Lakhimpur Khiri: 3 dead". GauriLankesh News. 3 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021. "Protesting Farmers...
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