 For me, she's always more than her sister, she's my best friend, I could say she was my soulmate. Because, more than anybody else, I would talk to her about my creative works, anything like that. I mean, including my daughter whom she calls her Aua, means mother itself. She calls me Amma and her Aua. So she was always doted, my sister doted on my daughter. I mean, it's not memory for me because for me she's still alive, it's like, it's not sunken as yet. Let me say that I have lost a very good friend, a great friend, and now I am realizing how great she was. In the last two, three days, the flurry of responses and the people spontaneously coming onto the streets, not in Karnataka in one day, that is the 6th of September, not less than 160 protest demonstrations, spontaneously. Karnataka has 177 Thalukas, almost every Thalukha has seen a protest. So, what touched the people, ordinary people, that's the main thing. I think she touched the heart of the people of Karnataka because her ideological commitment and emotional conviction to the causes she exposed was so radiant, so radiating, so transparent. She was there to get public tribute, thousands of people. I think more than two and a half hours to three hours and it was a very heavy downpour. It was raining, people were standing. Finally we have decided to move her to the graveyard. At that time also people were coming running and there in that graveyard also hundreds of people were there. That does not mean that all those people were known to Gavri personally. Streams of people, I mean, when she passed away we thought she would give her body in her house or my office or what should we do for people to come and pay their last respect. Then other people would see this is, we are not, we are just blood relatives to her. I might be, my daughter might be, my brother, my mom. But I found out her circle of family is huge and kind of support would come to be with us. And they said no we will keep her in Ravinda Kala Satsamsa which is a very public place where many, many personalities have been, you know, so. And I was shocked to see that day it was raining and streams of people and all kinds of people all from all strata of society coming from politicians to film industry and writers. Even bus drivers, a whole lot of them came. And a lot of students whom I think have found a voice with her, you know. And I found it amazing and the kind of sorrow I was feeling, family was going through. It converted into a pride, sense of pride. I have a feeling that the response to this is because people believe that freedom of expression is going. This is one of the things which has made people realize and have come out in big numbers. This is very important issue. My brother and I decided they will run the paper together and make it survival. And as it is, as you know, she was one of the only one paper across the country who run it without any advertisements solely on circulation. In 2000, her father P. Lankesh died and she came and edited the magazine along with her brother Indrajit Lankesh. Then she could hardly write commentaries. She could write some little bit. But within two years she mastered the language. Not only she started to write, she started to think. So much so, two years before when she started to write a column to Bangalore Mirror in English, she found all kinds of difficulty to write in English because her thought process had become current. Paper, publication itself is important but at the same time she had reached beyond that. So her paper is just a small part of it, very brief part of it. And for her it was more of a sense of pride and a sense of what can I say, not to be a disappointment to my father, which we said he would never have felt if he closed it down. State actually conspired with the people who were running the magazine and started with that she's kicked out of the magazine. That was February 22nd of 2005. She was told at the point blank by her brother that she is no more needed to this magazine. It is his and she should quit the magazine. Then within a span of 15 days she had already registered a magazine, a title under her name, Gauri Lankesh Patrika. February 22nd she was actually ousted and March 8th she came out with a new magazine. That is the day. So that was a Shivaratri day, a public holiday. After noon there was a huge rally, I mean huge release ceremony, more than 1000 people all over Karnataka came. So what I am trying to say is people liked her for her commitment. But more than that I think as a newspaper journalist she got into gradually a lot of activism throughout and very liberal leftist attitude and highly condemning the right wing activities and all that. She used to say if truth is biased, journalism should also be biased. If the truth is one-sided it should take sides. She never believed in a kind of so-called objective, non-partisan kind of journalism. It cannot exist like that, it will take its time. So activism was blended into her kind of journalism. So this is Gauri actually. She is writing for ordinary people, marginalised people, non-trade on people, Dalits, minorities. Nobody can question her. For example if I take from Bababudan Giri thing only, see there are certain symbols in this country which shows the communal harmony and the real essence of this country. These right wing fundamentalist forces were hell-bent upon taking out that Bababudan Giri and they wanted to convert it into Dattapetha. And as a part of that actually she became Bababudan Giri, part of Bababudan Giri, she got court-arrested in 2003. One of the editions was bought from the jail when she was in jail actually. She actually dictated all the things over phone and her colleagues in the press actually printed that. So finally Supreme Court has given a direction to Karnataka state government to form a committee to go through the whole history of Bababudan Giri. When Supreme Court gives that kind of direction, even Supreme Court wants to keep that legacy of India which is for communal harmony and enmity among the people kind. Then Gauri Lankesh along with civil liberties activists, many of them, they are also stalwarts in Karnataka. They came together to form this indigenous initiative of peace and they gave a call to both government and naxalates to avail this opportunity to hold talks. So their appeal was that if you are fighting for Adivasis and if the government is willing to solve the problem of Adivasis, why can't you try that out? The respect these people climbed in not only from the government, also from the naxalates, both of them heeded to their request and as a part of that almost for six months there was a kind of ceasefire. I myself, I was writing a column for ten years to her in the name of Charvaka. I myself have written so many articles criticizing naxalates, criticizing their stupidities for some time, criticizing their wrong selection of the targets, criticizing their wrong understanding of the changing nature of the society. Not even once we got any letter or any kind of reprimand or a kind of thread from naxalates. But whenever she wrote anything about RSS, Sangaparivar or BJP, we used to get letters in those days. After when Facebook started, we used to get a lot of galleys below the belt, vulgar. And you know how women are treated, you know, all kind of vulgar languages. She used to laugh at them. She never used to bother about them. That is one part. Within one and a half hour the whole twitterity of them started to celebrate the murder of Gauri Lankesh. Fitting reply, she deserves that death and all that below belt kind of things they started. Then who are celebrating that death? You have a clear indication. First you should probe that. I am not denying that police should probe all the angles. I am not denying that. But the glaring thing is there, no? Ravishankar Prasad has also given a statement in a press conference. As a minister, ruling minister, he says that RSII is not the thing and it is the naxalates. How could he say that? He is the head of the executive and he is giving a direction. This is misuse of power. Police let them probe all the angles. Give them free hand. First come the first. Whichever is glaring, obvious, let them exhaust. I think that Gauri's murder which at the personal level is, you know, both shocking and tragic. But I do think it is, it goes beyond an attack on an individual, independent minded journalist. And it is actually an attack on freedom of expression and I think that is something which we all need to understand. So it is in this background, lots of people are coming out against these issues, against the government policies. As I said, workers are coming out, Dalits are coming out, minorities are coming out. So different sections of the people are coming out against the government's policy. I would know how to divert. And those who take lead in organizing the people, if they are finished to that extent, they feel, they feel that these movements will be suppressed. But in reality, it is not so. I think it will continue more strongly now, in fact. The only thing is, she was a part of the forum. It was her face. Like in the, as I told you, Kamel harmony forum, what they have. Also she was one of the faces. So many people were there in that. But one, with her away, I hope the forum and their works and so many different forums are there. And all of them continue the work strongly with or without her.