Who was Gauri Lankesh? Here are lesser known facts about journalist

Senior Kannada journalist and social activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead on Tuesday night by unidentified men at her residence, police said. She was 55. "She was shot dead from a close range at her house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar (in the suburbs) around 8 p.m. as she was entering the house," Bengaluru Police Commissioner T. Suneel Kumar told reporters.  "A total of seven bullets were fired out of which four missed the target and hit the wall of the house. Three bullets had hit her -- two in her chest area and one in the forehead," he said.
Her brother Indrajit Lankesh demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death. "I don't have any words to say. It is shocking that my sister, a journalist and activist, was targeted this way," he told reporters. "There must be a CBI investigation into the death and there must be severe punishment for the killers," he said.