SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Gauri Lankesh

1962 - 2017

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Gauri Lankesh (29 January 1962 – 5 September 2017) was an Indian activist and journalist from Bangalore, Karnataka. 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 murdered outside her home in Rajarajeshwari Nagar on 5 September 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gauri Lankesh has received more than 2,006,333 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Gauri Lankesh is the 733rd most popular social activist (down from 603rd in 2019), the 1,209th most popular biography from India (down from 989th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gauri Lankesh ranks 733 out of 840. Before her are Cenk Uygur, Amanda Knox, Kumi Naidoo, Karla Avelar, Lina Ben Mhenni, and Barbara Gittings. After her are Alexandra Shevchenko, Veronika Tsepkalo, Hector Pieterson, Zakia Zaki, Irom Chanu Sharmila, and Pablo Hasél.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Gauri Lankesh ranks 791. Before her are Olga Charvátová, Trajko Veljanovski, Scotty Nguyen, Archana Puran Singh, Michael McCaul, and John Wallace. After her are Mike Phelan, Juan Bautista Hernández Pérez, Kim Ki-taik, Paul Beatty, Redžep Redžepovski, and Madhavi. Among people deceased in 2017, Gauri Lankesh ranks 663. Before her are Ronnie Moran, David Poisson, Julia Perez, Yurizan Beltran, Mark White, and Helen Dunmore. After her are Ben Barres, Judy Martz, Mundell Lowe, Stefano Farina, Serge Baguet, and Aaron Hernandez.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gauri Lankesh ranks 1,209 out of 1,861. Before her are Usha Kiran (1929), Rati Agnihotri (1960), Devendra Fadnavis (1970), Rita Bhaduri (1955), Rakhi Sawant (1978), and Rajesh Roshan (1955). After her are Rituparno Ghosh (1963), Varun Dhawan (1987), Gurdas Maan (1957), Ratna Pathak (1957), Shashi Deshpande (1938), and Madhavi (1962).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Gauri Lankesh ranks 56. Before her are Jadav Payeng (1963), Rattanbai Jinnah (1900), Rajmohan Gandhi (1935), Sumaira Abdulali (1961), Aruna Shanbaug case (1948), and Stan Swamy (1937). After her are Irom Chanu Sharmila (1972), Manasi Pradhan (1962), Sunitha Krishnan (1972), Laxmi Agarwal (1990), and Licypriya Kangujam (2011).

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