Gauri Lankesh Patrike, the tabloid that journalist Gauri Lankesh owned and edited before being gunned down by assassins three months ago, will be rechristened Namma Gauri (Our Gauri), a member of the trust floated in her memory has said.

The member of the Gauri Memorial Trust that was created recently to perpetuate the journalist’s memory said Lankesh’s mother had asked for a change in the Kannada weekly’s name. “Her mother said she did not want us to use the name of Lankesh. Respecting this, we will call it Namma Gauri, but it will have the same staff,” the member, who did not wish to be named, said.

The trust that is headed by freedom fighter HS Doreswamy and has activist-journalist Teesta Setalvad among its members aims to financially support the Kannaga-language paper. It will also institute an annual award in Lankesh’s name to felicitate journalists, organise lectures and extend fellowships to journalists from disadvantaged backgrounds. Meanwhile, friends and relatives of the slain journalist gathered in Bengaluru on Tuesday – exactly three months after Lankesh was murdered -- demanding answers from chief minister Siddaramaiah for the slow pace of the probe into her killing. Lankesh was shot dead in the portico of her house by unidentified assassins on September 5 and the police are yet to crack the case.