#GauriLankesh murder accused Shrikant Pangarkar has joined the #EknathShinde-led Shiv Sena ahead of the #Maharashtra polls.
Pangarkar, arrested in 2018, was granted bail by the #Karnataka High Court last month.
Shrikant Pangarkar, a Jalna municipal councillor of the undivided Shiv Sena between 2001and 2006, was arrested in August 2018 and was granted bail by the Karnataka High Court on 4 September this year.
Hindutva groups honour journalist Gauri Lankesh's killers chanting 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' and expressed support for Sanatan Dharma.
The Being and Becoming of Gauri Lankesh
#GauriLankesh stood by her values, not organisations. Her participation was always driven by principles and purpose, reflecting her unwavering solidarity.
https://thesouthfirst.com/opinion/the-being-and-becoming-of-gauri-lankesh/
Gauri’s solidarity was with values she believed in and she always saw the limitations of organisations and institutions. Probably that is the reason why she never became an active member of any organisation. Her participation was purely value- and agenda-based.
India Deserves a Better Media
Mainstream news channels have been in thrall to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A ragtag army of small independent media is helping to save democracy. Mukul Kesavan writes.
#media #NarendraModi #ProGovernmentMedia #TimesNow #IndiaToday #RepublicTV #PressFreedom #GauriLankesh #GujaratRiots #BJP #communalism #hindutva #misinformation #modi #india
Dabholkar’s shooters convicted, one is also an accused in Gauri Lankesh murder
Dabholkar’s murder in 2013 had set off a chain of targetted killings of rationalists such as Govind Pansare, MM Kalburgi, and Gauri Lankesh.
#NarendraDabholkar #SachinAndure #SharadKalaskar #VirendrasinhTawde #GauriLankesh #GovindPansare #MMKalburgi #SanathanSanstha #hindutva #communalism #india
A series of rationalists, journalists were murdered across #India soon after #Modi took Delhi in 2014. This court has convicted the gun, and forgiven the conspirators -- a moth eaten justice delivered too late, and too diminished in its ability to dissuade similar criminals in future, can be palatable only to a society of thugs and maurauders. Do YOU think justice was done here?
#Dabholkar #DabholkarMurderCase #GaurilankeshMurder #GauriLankesh
The Rise of a Hindu Vigilante in the Age of WhatsApp and Modi
India, the world's largest democracy, has also become the world's largest experiment in social-media-fueled terror.
#HinduMobs #CowVigilantism #SocialMedia #hindutva #BJP #BajrangDal #RSS #whatsapp #facebook #twitter #muslims #islamophobia #HumanRights #ReligiousFreedom #InterfaithMarriages #radicalisation #CowLynchings #GrahamStaines #GauriLankesh #india
https://www.wired.com/story/indias-frightening-descent-social-media-terror/
The video of Gauri Lankesh’s speech that her assassins used to whip up hate
Investigators say that the trigger for the killers to identify Gauri as a target was not only her body of journalistic work, but also this video clip from a speech discussing Hinduism.
#GauriLankesh #HJS #karnataka #hindutva #HJV #BJP #BJPkarnataka #hinduism #FreedomOfSpeech #PostcardNews #disinformation #ReligiousViolence #india