Killing of Kannada Journalist Gauri Lankesh, Brings Forth Once Again, the Bloody Character of the Capitalist Regime

- Rajesh Tyagi/ 9.9.2017

Killing of 55 years old Kannada journalist Gauri Lankesh by unknown assailants in the evening of September 5, outside her home in Rajrajeshwari Nagar, the suburb of Bangalore city, has triggered a full blown public outrage.

Leaders from right to left have conveyed customary grief messages alongside condemning the ghastly murder.

Gauri had spent 33 years of her life in journalism, starting her career with Times of India before switching over to Sunday magazine as its Bangalore correspondent, where she worked for next nine years. She later moved to Delhi with husband, Chidanand Rajghatta. At the time of death of her father, P.Lankesh, Editor of Kannada weekly, Lankesh Patrike, in 2000, she was working with Eeenadu’s Television Channel at Delhi. Returning back to Bangalore, after break with her husband, she alongside her brother Indrajit, proposed to close down the magazine of her father, but on persuasion of the publisher of the magazine she took over as its Editor, while her brother looked after its business affairs.