Bengaluru: Journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead at her home in Bengaluru last night, was a fierce activist, who openly expressed her pro-Naxal and Leftist views.
Ms Lankesh, 55, was the daughter of P Lankesh, a leading Kannada journalist who founded the Kannada weekly tabloid "Lankesh Patrike".
Her siblings -- Kavitha and Indrajit Lankesh -- are film and theatre personalities.
Ms Lankesh started her own Kannada tabloid "Gauri Lankesh Patrike" in 2005 after quitting as editor of the paper founded by her father, allegedly over differences with her brother who is also the paper's proprietor and publisher.
Last year, Ms Lankesh was convicted in a defamation case filed by BJP MP Pralhad Joshi and a party office bearer, Umesh Doshi, who objected to a report on them that ran in 2008 in her paper.
Ms Lankesh worked extensively for the rehabilitation of Naxals who wanted to to return to the mainstream.
(With inputs from PTI)
Ms Lankesh, 55, was the daughter of P Lankesh, a leading Kannada journalist who founded the Kannada weekly tabloid "Lankesh Patrike".
Her siblings -- Kavitha and Indrajit Lankesh -- are film and theatre personalities.
Last year, Ms Lankesh was convicted in a defamation case filed by BJP MP Pralhad Joshi and a party office bearer, Umesh Doshi, who objected to a report on them that ran in 2008 in her paper.
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(With inputs from PTI)
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