The vast majority of Indian journalists killed on the job in the last 25 years have been Indian language journalists, as was Gauri Lankesh, the fiery woman journalist shot dead in her house in Bengaluru on Tuesday night.

Data compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists shows that 40 Indian journalists were killed in targeted assassinations or in violence while on the job between 1992 and 2017, for confirmed motives. None of them who were killed in targeted assassinations worked for English publications -- the majority worked for Hindi newspapers, along with those who worked in Assamese, Urdu, Telugu, Gujarati and Punjabi media organisations. Most of the Indian journalists killed also worked in smaller cities - Jhansi, Siwan, Shahjahanpur