by : Gauri Lankesh
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Book Synopsis : DC Books and Navayana are proud to announce The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader. It takes an assassination these days for us to sit up, get the full measure of the life and work of a person, and cherish her for it. A late start, in the grisliest sense. Yet, two years before her killing, Gauri Lankesh wrote: ?No one knows who will gain materially by Kalburgi?s death. But it is clear that it is the right-wing fascist forces that will gain ideologically when reformist voices such as Basavanna?s and Kalburgi?s are brutally and fatally shut down. Ideas, however, never die.?The prospect of getting her own name on this list did not deter her. A selfish silence that values personal comfort over facing down bullies was never an option. We are left with her ideas, her words?like with Basava and Kalburgi. As a journalist and social activist, Gauri Lankesh (1962?2017) joined the battle against not just Hindutva but all forms of bigotry and obscurantism. As the editor of Gauri Lankesh