Overview
- Family members said Indira Lankesh died at her residence in Bengaluru on Monday, reportedly in her sleep after a heart attack and ongoing age-related illness.
- She is survived by her children Kavitha Lankesh and Indrajith Lankesh, both filmmakers, and was living with daughter Kavitha at the time of her death.
- Indira built a saree business, Mayur Silks, to support the family when P. Lankesh left his university post and she later managed publishing work for Lankesh Patrike.
- She was also an author whose memoir Hulimavu Mattu Naanu ran in the family’s publications and who quietly handled much of the administration behind the Lankesh literary and journalistic legacy.
- Political leaders, activists and artists paid tribute and noted that the family never fully recovered from Gauri Lankesh’s 2017 murder, renewing public calls for justice and closure.