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The killing of an outspoken Indian academic has prompted angry reactions a day after he was shot dead on Sunday.
Malleshappa Madivallapa Kalburgi, who was shot on his own doorstep, was known for views that had angered some right-wing Hindu groups.
Since 1989 he had been the target of death threats over writings that were accused of being blasphemous and calls for his own Lingayat beliefs to be considered separate from Hinduism.
"The assassination is deplorable and condemnable," author Subhash Gatade, who has written on right-wing groups, told Anadolu Agency on Monday.
"It is a part of larger pattern unfolding in South Asia," Gatade said, comparing Kalburgi's murder to the killing of four secular bloggers in Bangladesh this year and the assassination of politician Salman Taseer in Pakistan in 2011.
TV anchor Sagarika Ghose also made the link, tweeting: "Those who gloat about killing of Bangla bloggers: what about killing of rationalists Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi on India's streets?"
Kalburgi's killing was the third such murder in the past two years in India, allegedly by right-wing Hindu groups.
In 2013, another intellectual, Narendra Dabholkar, who had campaigned against superstitions, was killed in the western state of Maharashtra.
In February, Govind Pansare, a communist leader and social activist was killed in Maharashtra for holding protests against toll-tax collection.
Kalburgi's last rites were performed on Monday noon in the south Indian town of Dharwad with television images showing mourners shouting "we want justice." - Maharashtra
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