Senior Indian journalist critical of right wing shot dead
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Police say a senior Indian journalist was fatally shot by unidentified attackers in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru.
Police say the assailants pumped bullets into Gauri Lankesh on Tuesday as she left her car after reaching her home in Bengaluru, the Karnataka state capital. The attackers fled the scene.
Top police officer R.K. Dutta said it was too early to say who killed her. He said he had met Lankesh recently, but she did not talk of any threat to her life.
According to the Hindustan Times, Lankesh, the editor of weekly tabloid Lankesh Patrike, was known to be a critic of right-wing groups and Sangh organisations. She often criticised communal violence, HT reported.
She was recently found responsible in a defamation case by a lawmaker of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for her writing about Hindu nationalists.
In 2015, an Indian scholar, Malleshappa M. Kalburgi, was killed in a similar way, also in Bengaluru. He was a critic of religious superstition.
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Sep 05, 2017 10:58pm
nobody has heard of this famous journalist .but whosoever has killed the journalist will be caught soon and punished as they should be
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Sep 05, 2017 11:04pm
Very sad :( may she Rest In Peace
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Sep 05, 2017 11:24pm
India is taking a wrong direction. suicidal for India
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Sep 05, 2017 11:36pm
Terrible! Tragic!! Ms. Gauri Lankesh was a warrior for the cause of truth and justice. I salute her. She is our martyr. Her life will continue to inspire many who are fighting for a tolerant and peaceful world.
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Sep 06, 2017 12:08am
You don't need any proof to convict Hindu right wing for any killing of so called secular critics as if RSS has no other work and or She is so influential that she can damage RSS single handedly. People have no patience to wait till Police inquiry.
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Sep 06, 2017 12:20am
It's odd. Journalists are never shot dead in America for their views. Views that are at least as critical. _ As is said, The Truth Hurts. The truth most certainly offfends some people.
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Sep 06, 2017 12:24am
All these ultra right religion based parties are evil and full of undesirable people. They are worse than declared terror outfits such as ISIS, Taliban, etc who at least are honest in their mission of terror. These, such as RSS, Hindu Mahasabha, etc pretend to be what they are not and are given open access to commit crimes by the BJP.
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Sep 06, 2017 12:59am
Hindu fascism will damage the very fabric of indian society if not stopped
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Sep 06, 2017 01:14am
Sorry for the lady! Under the Modi regime as democracy slowly dies in India rise of fascism is taking place. Indeed a moment of shame for "The largest Democracy".
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Sep 06, 2017 01:15am
The true face of modern India. Fascism on the rise and soon to be the norm at all levels of India. The fascists have got the high castes with them, run the military, control the mandirs, the pro fascist industrialists own the media (the few remaining free media outlets have been forced to play to the Hindu terror tune). Even a Hindu supporter of fascist RSS will no longer be able to say that Jinnah was wrong to warn Muslims of the evil of saffron fascism. In Pakistan the terrorists are on the edges of society in India, the majority of Hindu's are happy to have Hindu terror at the heart of their country.
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Sep 06, 2017 02:38am
Sad day.... She was one of the well known journalist.....
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Sep 06, 2017 02:46am
Matter should be investigated and culprit must be punished whoever he/she be. But trying to link the murder with some agenda of right-wing groups is too early and that is without any proof. It could be due to some personal matter, property matter, jealousy or anything which none of us know.
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Sep 06, 2017 02:54am
Modi's India shows its true colors.
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Sep 06, 2017 03:14am
Indian extremists and terrorists...
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Sep 06, 2017 04:14am
The real reason is, she and her father Lankesh exposed congress over 100 times and made them to lose in Karnataka state elections twice. Current home minister of Karnataka George is a hardcore criminal and was furious on Gowri and her father. This is surely George's hand. The paper rune by Gowri n her father was a pain in wrong place for congress since 1980s.
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Sep 06, 2017 04:16am
As investigation of MM Kalburgi killing indicated it is not done by BJP/RSS Karnataka government halted the process and no further progress in the case. There is congress hand in there as well
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Sep 06, 2017 04:17am
critic of right-wing groups and Sangh organisations. She was not just critic of right wing, more than that she was critic of corruption and exposed congress every time.
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Sep 06, 2017 04:58am
Tolerant india....
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Sep 06, 2017 05:30am
It seems all the Indian commentators are on vacation for now.
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Sep 06, 2017 05:33am
Hindu fundamentalists are taking law
Into their own hands while the government of BJP turns a blind eye
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Sep 06, 2017 07:35am
It has happened in Congress ruled state... What is the Congress govt doing.... No law and order in the state...
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Sep 06, 2017 08:12am
Lankesh Sir, dearest daughter death unbelievable. people getting education for literacy only. Gouri Lankesh was a Brave journalist, she raised her voice for secularism. Karnataka 7crore people miss her lot. RIP ..
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Sep 06, 2017 10:35am
BJP has started bumping off journalists not kow-towing it's venomous agenda. Sad day for India.
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Sep 06, 2017 10:59am
@AMIT The reason is congress is behind this attack. Gowri and her father exposed 100s of congress scams and made them to lose twice. Also similar personality by name MM Kalaburgi was shot dead 2 years ago n congress has not even started investigation. Home minister George is from criminal background who killed even a DYSP
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Sep 06, 2017 11:56am
Unfortunately india is going to be destroyed by indians...
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Sep 06, 2017 12:01pm
Proper CBI investigation should be ordered and culprits be hanged. I find something fishy here. Karnataka is ruled by Congress, State elections are coming up and Mrs Gauri Lankesh was a known critic of right wing forces. Are the right wing forces out of their mind to commit such a harakiri, knowing very well the fingers will pointing to them? We all know 'games' political parties can play. Recently, CBI raided the most powerful minister (the richest politician in India) of the Karnataka govt. Many loose ends.
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Sep 06, 2017 12:41pm
Don't know who killed her. But it is definitely not a good sign for a democratic country like India.
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Sep 06, 2017 01:33pm
The Hundutava militants are involved in this hinious crime.,
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Sep 06, 2017 02:51pm
By the way, she was more critical of congress than BJP. I think this article missed that point of view.
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Sep 06, 2017 02:54pm
In India who ever talk against Hindus are called secular and if any one against Islamic perversion then he is communal.
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Sep 06, 2017 02:58pm
very sad incidence, but what's even more sad is that no one talked about RSS workers who were killed by communists in Kerala... why media/'intellectuals'are so selective?
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Sep 06, 2017 03:37pm
RIP.
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Sep 07, 2017 02:10am
Brave and people of great character never die. They always remain in the pages of history as role models for the generation to come.
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Sep 07, 2017 07:36am
@Akil Akhtar This incident happened in Congress ruled state not bjp.
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