By Manju Devarapalli Hyderabad, Sept 7, 2020: A Capuchin seminary in Andhra Pradesh organized a seminar on the Indian Constitution to mark the death anniversary of Gauri Lankesh, a journalist who promoted secular values and liberal thinking. “The future priests should not be confined to the theology in theory butContinue Reading
Bengaluru: Six months after senior journalist Gauri Lankesh’s murder, a special police team probing the case made the first arrest Friday. They have got five more days to continue the interrogation of KT Naveen Kumar, who was taken into custody for questioning a week ago. Naveen Kumar, in his lateContinue Reading
Dictators, fascists, fundamentalists and totalitarian regimes are afraid of the pen and use the sword to throttle freedom of speech and expressionContinue Reading
Bengaluru: Activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was gunned down outside her home in Bengaluru last month, will be posthumously given the Anna Politkovskaya Award this year, making her the first Indian to receive the honour, her family said Friday. Lankesh will share the annual award, instituted in memory of a RussianContinue Reading
Kandhamal witnessed worst anti-Christian violence nearly a decade agoContinue Reading
This time, not from external aggressors, but from the enemy withinContinue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ The celebrated German playwright, poet and fierce anti-Nazi critic Bertolt Brecht once wrote: “in the dark times, will there also be singing? yes, there will also be singing about the dark times”. Apt words, as we remember the celebrated journalist and human rights defender Gauri Lankesh,Continue Reading
Mumbai: Indian Christian Women’s Movement has condemned the “cowardly murder of “Gauri Lankesh, a journalist who challenged the right wing forces in India. “We salute Gauri’s courage and commitment to the democratic and secular values of our constitution. She went to the extent of putting her life on the lineContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has condemned “the dastardly, brutal and cowardly” murder of the senior journalist, Gauri Lankesh, editor of the Kannada weekly, Lankesh Patrike on September 5 in Bengaluru. “We salute her for the courage with which she wrote, the conviction with which sheContinue Reading
Her death comes two years after the assassination of M.M. Kalburgi Continue Reading