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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. At the time of her death, Gauri was known for being a critic of right-wing Hindu extremism. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2024). Gauri Lankesh is the 804th most popular social activist (down from 738th in 2024), the 1,362nd most popular biography from India (down from 1,209th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gauri Lankesh ranks 804 out of 840. Before her are Laura Lopes, Nisha Ayub, Godeliève Mukasarasi, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Ronan Farrow, and Joshua Wong. After her are Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, Polly Higgins, Bibi Aisha, Rahibai Soma Popere, Vanessa Nakate, and Prince Abdul Azim of Brunei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Gauri Lankesh ranks 1,015. Before her are Leopoldo Serantes, Jeremy Podeswa, Chris Grayling, Michele Greene, Alaa Mayhoub, and Jacqui Smith. After her are Yoshihiro Kitazawa, Jamie Raskin, Jerome Kersey, Richard Brooks, Nigel Warburton, and Michael Grenda. Among people deceased in 2017, Gauri Lankesh ranks 689. Before her are David Poisson, Yukinori Miyabe, Gillian Rolton, Steve Reevis, Steven Holcomb, and Cho Jin-ho. After her are Grant Hart, Yelena Naimushina, Amina Okueva, Jérôme Golmard, Ralphie May, and John Cygan.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gauri Lankesh ranks 1,362 out of 1,861. Before her are Kiran Rao (1973), Silambarasan (1983), Nandamuri Balakrishna (1960), Tinnu Anand (1945), Diana Hayden (1973), and Ramachandra Guha (1958). After her are Abhinav Bindra (1982), Mamta Chandrakar (1958), Vikram Batra (1974), Muzaffar Ali (1944), Shefali Jariwala (1982), and Suniti Solomon (1938).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Gauri Lankesh ranks 59. Before her are Medha Patkar (1954), Nirmala Deshpande (1929), Jamnalal Bajaj (1889), Rajmohan Gandhi (1935), Manasi Pradhan (1962), and Laxmi Agarwal (1990). After her are Rahibai Soma Popere (1964), Salil Shetty (1961), Sampat Pal Devi (1961), Sunitha Krishnan (1972), Teesta Setalvad (1962), and Bhakti Sharma (1989).

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