Gauri Lankesh, a firebrand editor, who began her journalistic career with Kolkata’s Ananda Bazar Patrika, used to run her own publication Lankesh Patrike. She was a fierce critic of right-wing Hindu fanatism and communalism. Gauri, was only 55, when assassinated. India, dangerous for journalists…
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