- Lived:
- 1962–2017 · Bangalore (Bengaluru) → sixteen-odd years in English journalism in Bangalore and Delhi → back to Bengaluru, to a Kannada weekly and a house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar
- Field:
- journalism — editor of Gauri Lankesh Patrike, an advertising-free Kannada tabloid weekly in the tradition her father founded
- The Big Idea:
- A paper that takes no advertisements has no masters — so she kept a chronically broke weekly alive for twelve years to say exactly what she thought about caste and communal politics, in the plainest Kannada she could manage, until someone shot her at her own gate.
- In their words:
- hours before she was killed, her last post online worried that "some of 'us' are fighting among ourselves" instead of facing what she called the real enemy — communal hatred (as widely reported from her final tweet)
- If you remember one thing:
- Her murder on 5 September 2017 became the defining case of violence against journalists in modern India — and as of September 2026, nine years on, no court has convicted anyone for it. The allegations remain allegations; the fact of the killing is a fact.