“Fringe Is Taking Over,” Says… Sister Of Murdered Journalist Gauri Lankesh

Kavitha Lankesh, the sister of Gauri Lankesh, says “the fringe is no longer fringe”. Gauri Lankesh, the editor of Lankesh Patrike, was shot dead at her Bengaluru house in September last year. Sometimes I feel extreme pity”.Speaking to NDTV at her home in Bengaluru, Ms Lankesh blamed the people who “brainwashed” young, impressionable people like him. “Like Gauri Lankesh, her sister is a believer in free speech, but she says people who make comments like that should be “put inside”.

The journalist, who was the editor of Lankesh Patrike, was shot dead at the entrance of her Bengaluru residence in September last year. Speaking of Parshuram Waghmare, Kavitha Lankesh said, “Sometimes I feel extreme hate.

Parshuram Waghmare, a 26-year-old man arrested last Monday, was the one who pulled the trigger, killing journalist Gauri Lankesh, the police have said.

As the last of the six men accused in the murder of Bengaluru journalist Gauri Lankesh got arrested, her younger sister Kavitha Lankesh expressed hope that maybe there would be some closure for her soon.

Parshuram Waghmare and another arrested man, Naveen Kumar, appear to have connections to Pramod Muthalik, chief of the Karnataka-based right-wing group Sri Ram Sena.

She was a strong lady with serious ideological differences. Gauri took over editorship of the popular Lankesh Patrike after her father was killed in a murder and later started her own publication, Gauri Lankesh Patrike. The lady had to go through a defamation case and numerous allegations for expressing her views against Hindutva and other sensitive issues of India.