I was numbed and chilled to the bone when news came in that my friend and colleague Gauri Lankesh editor of “Gauri Lankesh Patrike” had been shot dead on September 5, 2017 in Bengaluru. And once again I am heartbroken, shocked and devastated that my friend and journalist colleague Shujaat Bukhari, editor of the English daily “Rising Kashmir” has been shot dead in Srinagar. We had exchanged DMs on Twitter only last week and fixed to meet the next time he was in Delhi.
Shujaat was a journalist of the old school, fiercely non-partisan, refusing to be drawn into extremist positions, resolutely and firmly sticking to the middle ground. Yet like Gauri, he was fearless and stout-hearted. He believed in telling the Read More
