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by wcoenen 1648 days ago
Some context that is missing in the article: this university has about 4000 students. [1]

So those 4 suicides this year represent 0.1% of the student population. For comparison, the suicide rate for the Indian population in general is closer to 0.01%. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Science

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_India