[dnomad]

> So 150 people per year, or 0.000015% of India’s population.

This is an enormous and completely baseless leap. Why would you ever assume that the rate of killings is constant? What makes you think these killings aren't part of a rapidly growing phenomenon of social-media driven violence?

[fooker]

What is rapidly growing is the rate of these events which are reported.

[tomp]

Not everything is a trend/signal.