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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 1,892,414 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gauri Lankesh is the 604th most popular social activist (down from 501st in 2019), the 993rd most popular biography from India (down from 887th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gauri Lankesh ranks 604 out of 538. Before her are Anna Hutsol, Ronan Farrow, Ahed Tamimi, David Kato, Sarah Hegazi, and Farhad Fatkullin. After her are Asmaa Mahfouz, Chen Qiushi, Anna Sharyhina, Karla Avelar, Edvin Kanka Cudic, and Irom Chanu Sharmila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Gauri Lankesh ranks 677. Before her are Kossi Efoui, Gregory Chamitoff, Joe Quesada, Phedon Papamichael, Jeff Cronenweth, and Jan Bartram. After her are Sandro Cuomo, James Sie, Tamara McKinney, Chris Savino, Alan Johnston, and Bonnie Bassler. Among people deceased in 2017, Gauri Lankesh ranks 593. Before her are Shyama, Rosemary Leach, David Poisson, Marek Ostrowski, Elena Verdugo, and Ronnie Moran. After her are Julia Perez, Yurizan Beltran, Tony Madigan, Vasily Kudinov, Scott Putesky, and Cristina Adela Foișor.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gauri Lankesh ranks 993 out of 1,493. Before her are Salman Khurshid (1953), Reena Roy (1957), Ahmed Patel (1949), Sonali Bendre (1975), Alok Sharma (1967), and Michael Bennet (1964). After her are Sonakshi Sinha (1987), P. V. Sindhu (1995), Anushka Shetty (1981), Harjit Sajjan (1970), Pooja Bhatt (1972), and Vinod Khosla (1955).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Gauri Lankesh ranks 45. Before her are Shivakumara Swami (1907), Nirmala Deshpande (1929), Jamnalal Bajaj (1889), Rajmohan Gandhi (1935), Jadav Payeng (1963), and Stan Swamy (1937). After her are Irom Chanu Sharmila (1972), Manasi Pradhan (1962), Sunitha Krishnan (1972), Saalumarada Thimmakka (2000), and Laxmi Agarwal (1990).

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