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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 different languages on Wikipedia. Gauri Lankesh is the 769th most popular social activist (down from 735th in 2019), the 1,351st 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 769 out of 840. Before her are Nikolay Alexeyev, Nisha Ayub, Godeliève Mukasarasi, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Ronan Farrow, and Joshua Wong. After her are Polly Higgins, Bibi Aisha, Suren Gazaryan, Eva Abu Halaweh, Farhad Fatkullin, and Jamila Afghani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Gauri Lankesh ranks 842. Before her are Mohamed Abd Al-Jawad, Scotty Nguyen, Leopoldo Serantes, Chris Grayling, Michele Greene, and Jacqui Smith. After her are Jamie Raskin, Jerome Kersey, Michael Grenda, Jeff Cronenweth, Stavros Lambrinidis, and Chris Savino. Among people deceased in 2017, Gauri Lankesh ranks 677. Before her are Moïse Brou Apanga, Tom Alter, David Poisson, Yukinori Miyabe, Gillian Rolton, and Steven Holcomb. After her are Grant Hart, Jérôme Golmard, Ralphie May, John Cygan, Germaine Mason, and Abubakari Yakubu.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gauri Lankesh ranks 1,351 out of 1,861. Before her are Raashi Khanna (1990), Kiran Rao (1973), Silambarasan (1983), 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), Suniti Solomon (1938), and Emraan Hashmi (1979).

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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 Sunitha Krishnan (1972), Archana Soreng (1996), and Licypriya Kangujam (2011).

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