Gauri Lankesh

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gauri Lankesh
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jan 29, 1962(1962-01-29)
Age	62
Birthplace	Bengaluru
Country	India
Birth City	Karnataka
Horoscope	Capricorn

Gauri Lankesh Biography

Gauri Lankesh is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on January 29, 1962 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Gauri Lankesh was born to the Kannada Lingayat family on 29 January 1962. Her father is a poet and journalist P. Lankesh, who founded the Kannada-language weekly tabloid Lankesh Patrike. She has two siblings: Kavitha in addition to Indrajit.

Gauri was a fervent opponent of the right-wing Hindutva politics. The year 2003 was the time she resisted the Sangh Parivar’s claims to Hinduise the Sufi temple Guru Dattatreya Baba Budan Dargah, which is located in Baba Budan giri. In 2012, when she was participating in a protest calling for the disbanding of community groups in Mangalore she declared that Hinduism is not a religion, but rather it was a “system of hierarchy in society” that “women are treated as second-class creatures”. She also endorsed a minority faith name to the Lingayat community, and was the head of Komu Souharda Vedike which is a social harmony platform that focuses on the marginalized communities. She also was of the opinion that those who followed the teachings of the philosopher Basavanna weren’t Hindus.

Gauri was known for advocating freedom of the press. She had written about the wrongdoings of the Indian National Congress leader, D. K. Shivakumar, a close associate of the former Chief Minister of Karnataka, S. M. Krishna. She was opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and ended her 35-year-old friendship with Prakash Belawadi when the latter became a media advisor to the BJP during the 2014 Indian general election. In November 2014, the Congress- led Karnataka government appointed Gauri as a member of a committee aimed at convincing the Naxalites to give up violence and surrender. However, a delegation of BJP leaders accused her of being a Naxalite sympathiser and demanded her removal from the committee. The chief minister Siddaramaiah rejected the demand.

Gauri was openly critical of the caste system. In 2015, some Brahmins accused her of criticising the novelist S. L. Bhyrappa and Brahminism during the 81st Kannada Sahitya Sammelana (Kannada literary conference) held at Shravanabelagola. At the conference, Gauri remarked that the low-caste author Perumal Murugan was criticised by right-wing Hindu groups for depicting a childless Hindu couple who indulged in consensual sex rituals outside of marriage to have children in his book One Part Woman. She then pointed out that the Brahmin novelist S. L. Bhyrappa had also depicted the similar Niyoga practice in his novel Parva, a retelling of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. She clarified that she was supportive of both these writers, and asked why the Hindu groups who were offended by Perumal Murugan were not offended by Bhyrappa. On 19 February 2015, protesters from the Hassan Zilla Brahmin Sabha (“Hassan district Brahmin Association”) organised a rally against her, urging the police to register a First Information Report against her.

In 2001, tensions emerged among Gauri and Indrajit about the magazine’s beliefs. These disagreements were exposed in February 2005, after an article about an Naxalite assault on policemen which was endorsed by Gauri and released in Gauri’s magazine. On the 13th of February, Indrajit (who served as the newspaper’s owner and publisher) removed the article in protest, claiming that it favors the Naxals. On February 14, Indrajit filed a police complaint against Gauri who was accused of stealing a computer scanner, and printer from the offices of the publication. Gauri submitted a counter-complaint in which she accused Indrajit of intimidating her with an assault weapon. On February 15, Indrajit held a press conference where Indrajit was accused by Gauri of encouraging Naxalism via the newspaper. Gauri also held a press conference in which she denied the allegations and claimed the fact that her father was not supportive of the social work she was doing. Gauri has since launched the publication of her own Kannada weekly, dubbed Gauri Lankesh.

Gauri Lankesh Net Worth

Gauri Lankesh is one of the richest Journalist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gauri Lankesh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gauri Lankesh (29 January 1962 – 5 September 2017) was an Indian journalist- turned-activist from Bangalore, Karnataka. She was an editor for Lankesh Patrike, a Kannada weekly that was founded by her dad P. Lankesh, and published her own weekly, Gauri Lankesh Patrike. Gauri was murdered by her attackers in her house located in Rajarajeshwari Nagar on 5 September 2017. When she died, Gauri was known for being a vocal critic for right-wing Hindu extremism. She was awarded the Anna Politkovskaya Prize for her work about the right-wing Hindu extremism, promoting women’s rights, and defending against caste-based discrimination.

Gauri began her journalist career at The Times of India in Bangalore. Then, she relocated in Delhi together with husband Chidanand Rajghatta. Soon after, she moved back to Bangalore and was a reporter to the magazine’s Sunday edition for 9 years. When the death of her father in 2000 she was working for Eenadu’s Telugu television channel in Delhi. At the time she had worked for sixteen years as journalist.

On 23 January 2008, Gauri published an article titled “Darodegilada BJP galu” in her newspaper. The article criticised the BJP leaders Pralhad Joshi, Umesh Dushi, Shivanand Bhat, and Venkatesh Mestry. The article stated that the three BJP workers had cheated a jeweller of ₹ 100,000. It also stated that the jeweller sought justice from Member of Parliament Joshi and threatened to approach the police should Joshi refuse to help him. Gauri later said that the article was based on “sources within the BJP”.

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In 2018, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder case detained two suspects, whom they also suspected of being involved in the murders of Dabholkar and Kalburgi. In June 2018, the SIT stated that Parashuram Waghmore had confessed to the murder: he claimed that he was told to kill someone to save his religion, and that he did not know who the victim was. In September 2018, Maharashtra ATS detained 2 suspects related to her murder and also recovered cache of arms from them. A March 2019 New York Times article on Gauri Lankesh includes a discussion of the police investigation and murder charges.

Facts & Trivia

Gauri Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Gauri Lankesh celebrates birthday on January 29 of every year.

What is Gauri Lankesh day?

Canada’s Burnaby city has declared September 5 as Gauri Lankesh Day, commemorating the life of the journalist-turned-activist who was killed outside her house in Bengaluru four years ago.

What was the religion of Gauri Lankesh?

Gauri Lankesh
Gauri in 2012
Born| 29 January 1962 Bangalore, Mysore State, India
Died| 5 September 2017 (aged 55) Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Why was Gauri killed?

Gauri Lankesh’s murder was alleged to have been motivated by the same forces that were involved in the killings of the rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar in 2013, and the leftist thinker Govind Pansare and Kannada scholar M M Kalburgi in 2015.

Who is Parshuram waghmare?

Parashuram Waghmare, who was arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) , has confessed to have assassinated the journalist to “save Hinduism”. The SIT had earlier arrested five people – K.T. Naveen Kumar alias Hotte Manja, Amol Kale, Manohar Edve, Sujeeth Kumar alias Praveen and Amit Degvekar.

How was Gauri Lankesh assassinated?

Almost five years on, trial begins in Bengaluru for 18 accused of killing journalist Gauri Lankesh. Gauri Lankesh, an outspoken critic of radical Hindutva, was shot dead outside her home in west Bengaluru on the night of September 5, 2017, by two motorcycle-borne assassins.