Remembering Gauri Lankesh, Renewing A Pledge
1. We lost Gauri Lankesh, journalist, activist and very passionate human being, exactly five years back It is now history how she was assasinated by rightwing Hindutva fanatics outside…
1. We lost Gauri Lankesh, journalist, activist and very passionate human being, exactly five years back It is now history how she was assasinated by rightwing Hindutva fanatics outside…
Members of the South Asian community came together to remember the slain Indian journalist at Surrey’s Holland Park on Sunday, September 5. Gauri Lankesh was a daring editor, who was…
The City of Burnaby has declared September 5 as a day to honour a slain Indian journalist. Daring editor Gauri Lankesh was allegedly murdered by right wing extremists in Bengaluru,…
Members of Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI) came together on Saturday January 30,to mark the birth anniversary of a slain journalist, outside the Indian visa and passport center in…
In 2013 Narendra Dhabolkar, who was fighting to get the Anti-Superstition law passed in Maharashtra and led a campaign for rationalism, and against blind faith all his life, was killed.…
Dear Gauri, It is many days since I wrote to you. This must have been the longest month in my life- the days since I first heard about your killing.…
The state of freedom of expression in India continues to deteriorate. Writers who voice dissenting viewpoints continue to be at risk for harassment and murder, and India’s defamation laws continue…
Dear Gowri, Hope my letters are not disturbing you... but as days pass and events that disturb and confuse multiply, how can I not write and share with you?… Please…
I was not yet nine but I distinctly remember the day when for the first time I witnessed people celebrating the murder of a person. In Mangalore my home…
Dear Gauri, It is 10 days since I wrote to you...2 days ago- September 15th was the International Day of Democracy with the theme Democracy and Conflict Prevention focusing on…
One of the English phrases says that “Pen is mightier than the sword”. The attempt by sword to put down pen is purely a result of fear that Pen has…
While the progressive forces were gearing up to celebrate the birth anniversary of Paash - a revolutionary Punjabi poet on September 9, the news of the assassination of Gauri…
And after your lightning and thunder A fresh rain will come Sprouting new buds and petals Spreading diverse colours of freedom. That song I will sing For the sake of…
On that dreadful evening of 5th September, if Gauri Lankesh had seen her own corpse lying in a pool of blood outside her house she would have -I am…
Ambassador Ajay Marotrao GONDANE High Commission of India Canberra, Australia Your Excellency I mourn and rage with India for the assassination of respected journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh. Progressive and principled, she…
When pen Becomes gun Ideas flow like bullets The enemy Picks up gun Unable to withstand the ' fire' of ideas And sprays bullets To eliminate ideas Still, Question…
But I am someone you just cannot curb I am a voice that refuses to die You may bleed my heart but it refuses to cry I am the eyes…
”I will do what i can and I will say What I should. These intolerant voices Find strength in our silence. Let them learn to argue using words instead of…
The murders of rationalists in India must make us all think as to how the Indian tradition of dissent and reasoning would survive. The tradition of dissent and rationality is…
When rationalists are murdered by obscurantists, secularists by religious zealots, and humanists by fascists, people typically react in one of four ways: 1. Mentally register the murder and then…
Exactly two years and five days after the fatal shooting of writer M M Kalburgi, the dastardly killing of journalist and editor Gauri Lankesh yesterday is being seen as a…
I just took a bullet for the remaining bits of humanity The baton passes on We will take it forward from here
Dear Gouri.. A few hours ago, above the loud and deafening sounds of the guns that fired into the air to give you a “honourable state farewell”, I heard the…
Gauri Lankesh was executed. What else do you call a bullet in the forehead? We know why. The question to those who did it and those with whose support they…
The Press Club of India did not have space to even stand yesterday. The outpouring of grief and anger in the street as well as on the social media…
Perhaps what they don’t realise People can be eliminated But not their ideas Their ideas will only percolate And continue to inspire generations
Late on the fifth of September noted journalist and human rights’ activist, Gauri Lankesh was shot dead at her residence by unidentified assailants in Bengaluru. Lankesh was the editor of…
Some of us are not free. We belong like individual pearls attached to a long, long chain to which we will be forever connected and to which we have…
The local South Asian activists came together to hold demonstration against the gruesome murder of Gauri Lankesh at the Holland Park in Surrey on Wednesday evening. Lankesh was a famous…
In a spontaneous outpouring of grief, anger and disbelief, protests erupted across the country against the assassination of senior journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh. Lankesh was shot dead at point-blank…
Gauri, you are more than a memory You are a direction For a world that should not be !
The fad of 'tolerance' is fast getting exposed but this is particularly for those who have been crying that we have suddenly become intolerance. The brutal murder of Gauri…
New Delhi | September 06, 2017: National Alliance of People’s Movements is deeply shocked and shattered at the cowardly and cold-blooded murder of well-known journalist, editor and fearless firebrand activist,…
Gauri Lankesh (55) , a senior journalist and a vocal anti-communal activist was shot dead in at her residence in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in Bengaluru. According to police officials she was…
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