On September 5th, 2017, activist and journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot in front of her house in the city of Bangalore. In January 2025, the last of the accused in the Gauri Lankesh murder case was granted bail. No one has been convicted in this case yet. Who killed Gauri Lankesh? Who wanted her silenced? What was her true legacy? And what are the consequences of her assassination for journalism, activism, and democracy in India? Pulitzer Prize finalist author and journalist Rollo Romig joins in this episode to discuss these questions and many more

References:

1. Rollo Romig: Website, Instagram
2. Book: I Am on the Hit List: Murder and Myth-making in South India
3. Last Accused In Custody For Journalist Gauri Lankesh's Murder Gets Bail, 17 Accused Out On Bail While One Absconds by Mustafa Plumber
4. Ground report: Behind Karnataka BJP's ‘jihadi’ murder list, more than Hindutva and Islamist clashes by Sruthisagar Yamunan
5. Have ‘jihadis’ killed 23 Hindutva activists in Karnataka since 2014 as BJP claims? by Sruthisagar Yamunan
6. Gauri Lankesh's killers just did the job our society had designed for them by TM Krishna
7. The end of rule of law in America by J. Michael Luttig
8. ‘Electoral autocracy’: The downgrading of India’s democracy by Soutik Biswas
9. Looking back 2024: Most dangerous places for journalists by Gautam Nirmal Doshi
10. How to steal a river by Rollo Romig
11. Agni Sreedhar: Instagram
12. My Days in the Underworld- Rise of the Bangalore Mafia by Agni Sreedhar
13. India's newspaper revolution: capitalism, politics, and the Indian-language press, 1977-99 by Robin Jeffrey
14. Speaking of Shiva by A.K. Ramanujan
15. Who is Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect? by Madeline Halpert & Mike Wendling
16. Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka- In Conversation with Srikar Raghavan- Episode 10 of Navigating India
17. The Adversary by Srikar Raghavan