A file photo of Indira Lankesh, the mother of Gauri Lankesh, at a release of the special edition the tabloid ‘Gauri Lankesh.’more-inOn September 5, journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh was murdered, her voice silenced. But the Kannada weekly tabloid she edited, which became a platform for progressive voices in the State, may soon be revived. Efforts are on to revive the weekly paper, to be run by a trust with her friends. Gauri quit the paper ‘Lankesh Patrike’, started by her father in 1980, and produced her own tabloid Gauri Lankesh in 2005, after a bitter fall out with her brother Indrajith Lankesh, who claimed ownership of the paper. The trust and the weekly paper are likely to be formally announced by November-end.

Source: The Hindu November 04, 2017 18:33 UTC