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…
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Vigil in memory of Gauri Lankesh held in Canada
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…
Canadian municipality proclaims Gauri Lankesh Day
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,…
Protest against lapdog media held to mark Gauri Lankesh’s birthday in Canada
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…
Ideological Murders And Political Suicide
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, You Were Never At Peace, We Too Shouldn’t Be
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.…
Resolution On India At The Poets-Essayists-Novelists (PEN) International Congress
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…
Third Letter To Gauri Lankesh….Dear Gauri, Did You Hear This?
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…
Celebrating Murder
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….. A Letter To Gauri Lankesh
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…
Gauri Lankesh Assassination: Attempt In Establishing Rule Of Sword
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…
Paash To Lankesh: How Indian State Continues To Discriminate Between Minority And Majoritarian Extremists
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…
Face The Music
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…
A Wild Flower in the Indian Wasteland, Gauri Lankesh: 1962-2017
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…
Assassination Of Gauri Lankesh: Dr Vacy Vlazna Writes To The Ambassador of Australia
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…
What Are We Going To Fight Over To-day ?
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…
We Shall Persevere: In Memory of Gauri Lankesh And The Rest
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…
Epitaph For Gauri Lankesh
”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
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…
We Are All Responsible For Gauri Lankesh’s Murder: 6 Categories Of Response To Violence
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…
Hindutva Terror Units Killed Gauri Lankesh, Says Her Lawyer
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…
Bullet Proof
I just took a bullet for the remaining bits of humanity The baton passes on We will take it forward from here
A Letter Written Posthumously
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…
Now What?
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…
Murder of Gauri Lankesh : An Attack On Media or Ideology ?
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…
Homage To Gauri Lankesh
Perhaps what they don’t realise People can be eliminated But not their ideas Their ideas will only percolate And continue to inspire generations
Gauri Lankesh: A Bullet To Dissent
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…
The Long Chain, A Tribute To Gauri Lankesh
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…
Rally For Gauri Lankesh Held In BC, Canada
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…
Thousands Protest Across The Country Against The Assassination Of Gauri Lankesh
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…
A Tribute To Gauri Lankesh!
Gauri, you are more than a memory You are a direction For a world that should not be !
Assassination Of Gauri Lankesh: A Cowardly Attack On Human Freedom
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…
NAPM Condemns Assassination Of Gauri Lankesh
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,…
Anti-Communal Activist And Journalist Gauri Lankesh Shot Dead
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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