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If you judge the calibre of an editor by the quality of her enemies, Gauri Lankesh was one of India’s best. She was murdered on September 5 by three gunmen who attacked as she entered her Bangalore home. The killing shocked the Indian media.

Gauri Lankesh opposed the communal totalitarian politics of the BJP and its twisted interpretation of Hinduism. She stood against the caste system, inequality, and gender discrimination.

“Can political violence be feminist?” is the question behind Patricia Melzer’s exciting study of women within the West German militant Left of the 1970s.

Thousands of NREGA workers from at least eleven states assembled again at Jantar Mantar in Delhi today for the second day of a five-day dharna called by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha from 11-15 Sept 2017.

Well known Kanada journalist Gouri Lankesh was murdered outside her house in Bangaluru on 5th September. Like the murder of Prof MM Kalburgi in 2015, the killers came on a two wheeler, and without any warning shot her dead at point blank. Spontaneous protests against the murder were held next day in many parts of Karanataka, as well as in many cities outside. Lankesh was a trenchant critic of Hindutva politics and did not mince words in her writings against its majoritarian authoritarianism.