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The weekly aimed to be a platform for the oppressed, Dalits, women and marginalised sections of Indian society.

It was this trip, he recounted in one of his editorials, that took him to the remotest parts of Karnataka and opened his eyes to the plight of the poor and the Dalits, and made him realise his responsibility as a writer and an intellectual towards society.

[2] Gauri subsequently left Lankesh Patrike and filed a complaint alleging that her brother had threatened her.

On 5 September 2017, Gauri was shot dead, at her house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, by unknown assailants, reportedly for her views against Hinduism.