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Gauri Lankesh, 55, a veteran Indian journalist, known for her open criticism of Hindu nationalist politics, has been shot dead at her home in Bangalore. Police who recovered her body Tuesday night said she had been killed by unknown gunmen on a motorcycle. It was found that his body was in a pool of blood near the door of his house. Until his death, Lankesh was the editor of the independent left-wing newspaper Lankesh Patrike, founded by his late father.
Activists say journalists are being increasingly targeted by radical Hindu nationalists and her death is the latest in a string of assassinations targeting journalists and secularists critical of extreme Hindu nationalism and religious superstition in India.
In 2015, scholar Malleshappa M. Kalburgi was shot dead at his home in Bangalore and earlier that same year politician and writer Govind Pansare was killed too.
According to Karnataka state's chief minister Siddaramaiah, 'there cannot be any personal reasons attributed to her death because she had no personal enemies. So, the possibility is only political'. Did You ❤ ❤ this post? DROP A C.O.M.M.E.N.T ... spill TEA.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie
Gauri Lankesh, 55, a veteran Indian journalist, known for her open criticism of Hindu nationalist politics, has been shot dead at her home in Bangalore. Police who recovered her body Tuesday night said she had been killed by unknown gunmen on a motorcycle. It was found that his body was in a pool of blood near the door of his house. Until his death, Lankesh was the editor of the independent left-wing newspaper Lankesh Patrike, founded by his late father.
Activists say journalists are being increasingly targeted by radical Hindu nationalists and her death is the latest in a string of assassinations targeting journalists and secularists critical of extreme Hindu nationalism and religious superstition in India.
In 2015, scholar Malleshappa M. Kalburgi was shot dead at his home in Bangalore and earlier that same year politician and writer Govind Pansare was killed too.
According to Karnataka state's chief minister Siddaramaiah, 'there cannot be any personal reasons attributed to her death because she had no personal enemies. So, the possibility is only political'. Did You ❤ ❤ this post? DROP A C.O.M.M.E.N.T ... spill TEA.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie
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