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Gauri Lankesh

Gauri Lankesh is known for Indian journalist and activist. Gauri Lankesh was born on 29 January 1962.

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Gauri Lankesh is best known for Indian journalist and activist. Gauri Lankesh is an Indian public figure. Gauri Lankesh was born on 29 January 1962, which places Gauri Lankesh among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1960s. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Gauri Lankesh is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Indian journalist and activist
Nationality: Indian
Born: 29 January 1962

About Gauri Lankesh

She worked as an editor in Lankesh Patrike, a Kannada weekly started by her father P. Lankesh, and ran her own weekly called Gauri Lankesh Patrike. She was honoured with the Anna Politkovskaya Award for speaking against right-wing Hindu extremism, campaigning for women's rights and opposing caste-based discrimination. Her father was the poet-journalist P. Lankesh, who established the Kannada-language weekly tabloid Lankesh Patrike. She had two siblings, Kavitha and Indrajit. Gauri started her career as a journalist with The Times of India in Bangalore. Later, she moved to Delhi with her husband, Chidanand Rajghatta. Shortly after, she returned to Bangalore, where she worked as a correspondent for the Sunday magazine for nine years.

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