Citizens for Justice and Peace
Death of a Rationalist: Gauri Lankesh Fearless journalist silenced for defying right wing extremists
13-May-2018
Gauri Lankesh was a fearless journalist and a rationalist, who never minced words while calling out the bigotry and misogyny of right wing extremists. She was shot dead by a man with alleged links to a radical Hindutva organisation in September 2017. As the Saffron brigade busies itself in a nationwide do or die battle for…
The Killing of Gauri Lankesh What the assassination of a Bangalore journalist says about media complacency in the face of Hindu nationalism’s violent rise in India
16-Feb-2018
((This article was originally published in the Columbia Journalism Review and is being republished here with their permission. The original article may be read here.)) Last September, as the journalist Gauri Lankesh was returning to her home from work, a man approached her in the driveway, his face obscured by a motorcycle helmet. He fired…
My Sister, My Soulmate A poem by Kavita Lankesh
29-Jan-2018
Gauri Lankesh fearlessly spoke truth to power. She stood up against injustice and discrimination. She strived for communal harmony until her dying breath. On the occasion of Gauri Lankesh’s birth anniversary, we are publishing a heartbreakingly beautiful tribute by her sister Kavita. She raved, she ranted, Many times she burst out…. Uppercaste this… Brahmincal…
Our Gauri: A Tribute to Gauri Lankesh #IAmGauri
29-Jan-2018
Fearless journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home in Bangalore in September 2017. This film follows her political journey, envisaging what she stood for and her struggle for communal harmony until her last breath.
Dissent and Democracy in India Keep the #JungJaari for Freedom of Speech and Expression
29-Dec-2017
Voices of dissent are being crushed with impunity in India. How will democracy flourish? Related stories: Criminalisation of Dissent
In Search of an Icon Lionising cold blooded killers
19-Dec-2017
“… A Hero of Our Time, gentlemen, is in fact a portrait, but not of an individual; it is the aggregate of the vices of our whole generation in their fullest expression.” (From Foreword to A Hero of Our Time, Lermontov’ quoted in Albert Camus novel ‘The Fall’) Shambhu Lal Raigar is a new hero…