Gauri Lankesh (1962–2017) was the editor of Gauri Lankesh Patrike. Starting her career as an English language print journa-list, she worked for the Times of India and Sunday magazine, and was chief of bureau, ETV News, New Delhi. After her father died, she took over the editorship of Lankesh Patrike, the weekly tabloid that he had founded in 1980. She joined the Karnataka Communal Harmony Forum in 2003 to counter the Sangh Parivar’s campaign to take over the syncretic dargah at Bababudangiri in Chikmagalur district. As an activist and journalist, she stood at the forefront of several struggles for justice, equality and love. She was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru on 5 September 2017 by unidentified gunmen. Chandan Gowda, editor of the English book, teaches at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has translated U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Bara (OUP, 2016) and editedTheatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvananthan (HarperCollins, 2016). Kavita Lankesh, Gauri's sister, is a director, screenplay writer and a lyricist who predominantly works in the Kannada cinema industry. The Gauri Lankesh reader is a collection of Gauri's articles translated into Telugu (24 articles from English, 21 from Kannada) and one interview, coupled with 6 tributes to Gauri. This is the book that will be released at the meet where Chandan and Kavita will speak, there will be readings from the book in both Telugu and English and plenty of time for a discussion.

A film on Gauri will be screened before/after the meet.

There will be a press meet from 4 pm to 5 pm at Lamakaan where Kavita and Chandan will speak and respond. Reporters and photographers are invited.