Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home in Bangalore on September 5 in an attack similar to that on Kannada writer and scholar M.M. Kalburgi in Dharwad two years ago.
A year after Gauri Lankesh's murder, the trail of a network of radical Hindu right-wing operatives that investigators in Karnataka have been piecing together now appears to be widening, and their paths criss-crossing.