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Journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh had noticed strangers hanging around near her house days before she was shot dead by unknown assailants, but did not see it as a threat, her mother revealed.

Gopalakrishna Adiga, the doyen of modernist literary (Navya) movement in Kannada, was also the first Kannada poet to contest the Lok Sabha elections in 1971. He jumped into the electoral fray just to oppose former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

When engineer-photographer AN Mukunda along with his wife Umade vi visited novelist SL Bhyrappa with their plan for a photoshoot, the latter initially refused to sit for them.