“Maybe the killers of Gauri Lankesh were angry that a woman was questioning the Hindutva ideology. This shows how much danger women journalists are in for merely doing their job,” said Meena Kotwal, founder of digital news platform Mooknayak.
Meena was speaking at a programme held by the Gauri Memorial Trust under the leadership of its president Teesta Setalvad, in memory of journalist Gauri Lankesh who was shot dead allegedly by Hindutva fundamentalists outside her Bengaluru residence on September 5, 2017. She was part of a session titled ‘Reconstructing the Fourth Estate’, held on the evening of January 28, featuring several prominent independent journalists and journalists from independent media houses.
