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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is from our recent vacation in Maui, Hawai. We were there a couple of days ago… being in Hawai is like standing at the edge of the world because you can see the horizon more than 180 degrees. It’s surreal. Like standing on a coin…no picture can capture it. #photography

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Was never a book snob. At 15 read Lin Yutang & Leon Uris with equal fervour. Enjoyed Gone with the Wind as much as Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Here's a small published piece of mine, published in the Deccan Herald two decades ago. Yep...that long ago! #booksky 📚💙 #writingcommunity #humor

A newspaper clipping of an old piece of mine

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Some sc/st entrants can certainly afford them. 5-10% of sc/st are rich and as many as 60% are not poor, meaning middle class. Average middle class parents make sacrifices for their children but anyone from sc/st does not have to. So there should be

There is no income cut-off for the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) quotas. A student from these categories receives the full reservation benefit regardless of how wealthy their parents are. Vajiram & Ravi +2

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Here is some info and it’s unfair.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Check this out. Wealthy individuals are getting into colleges with barely any fees because of their caste. The system is skewed.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Countries should manage their inherent demographic balance otherwise there will be strife. That’s why India enacted the CAA, an Act restricting immigration of a certain community. Singapore’s been doing it for ages. It’s common sense but people living in their own intellectual bubble can’t see it.

Singapore actively manages its citizenship and immigration process to reflect and maintain its existing demographic balance. The government utilizes the CMIO framework-which
categorizes the population into
Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Others (Eurasian)—to ensure that the intake of new citizens closely aligns with the national average, preserving the country's multicultural foundation. o

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here's a map showing the number of seniors in the world, country-wise. Surprised that so few seniors are present in Saudi, which is a rich country. Generally one expects that rich countries have good healthcare. Japan obviously does as longevity is high. Or is it their diet and lifestyle?

This is a map showing longevity in the world

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Now apparently #AI firms are hiring philosophers! What next! Below is an excerpt from an editorial in The Economist.

AI models' values are very different from those of most people, The Economist's data team has found. Big Al firms are hiring philosophers to help make their models wiser, which may help.
We suggest principles that governments should apply to reduce the risk of catastrophic harm from AI and to deal with the social and economic consequences as they become clearer. But there is a risk that, as the topic becomes politically explosive, politicians will impose clumsy rules, making it harder to reap the technology's vast potential benefits, or allowing China, which is only a few months behind, to get to superintelligence first and become the world's dominant power.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I grew up in a milieu where cousin marriages were illegal & taboo, although I knew certain communities were allowed by law to do it. There's debate in the UK of late, & to my surprise, cousin marriages are legal in many parts of the developed world. China bans it completely for ALL communities.

A graph showing that cousin marriages are legal in Australia, S. America, and in many parts of Europe and America while completely banned in China. Hardly any countries criminalise it although it's a crime in India for Hindus in many parts of India.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It’s been found that a Pakistani hiding in Canada orchestrated the anti-Indian hate on X-Twitter. He made bot farms. Illegal in #Canada but he is still not arrested. Instead X threatened the Indian kid (Acyuta) in India with suspension -the kid who hacked and discovered the bot farms.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Pune has failed to enforce the helmet rule. Cops are either afraid of the public or they don’t like wearing helmets themselves. Both things are true because Pune cops are often found riding without helmets.

A street scene showing people riding bikes without helmets

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My card wasn't working on name.com. They cd not solve it but insisted on a rating. The google chatbot solved it in seconds (attached). Same card worked. When I told name, they refused to acknowledge their poor support. If a chatbot has the answers, why can't the name support team just google it?

Instructions from google chatbot. It said that one-time payment, without actually saving the card could work. And it did.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Not just a toll for ships - Iran wants to weaponise every layer of Hormuz. It’s signaling it’ll target a critical global artery- subsea internet cables carrying fin transactions, cloud services & digital communications between Europe, Asia and the Gulf. gulfnews.com/world/mena/d...

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The big day looms. Very excited. Anyone here on Bluesky who lives in Pune is welcome to attend. #books #writing 💙 📚

An invite to the book launch of the Rakwada Poisonings

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

In Sweden 57% of people have traveled to 10 or more countries; US it's just 11%; Japan 8%. Of those who have never left their home countries – 95% Indians, 87% Brazilians, 34% from Japan, 10% of Aussies, 23% Americans, just 3% of Germans & 1% from the Netherlands, . #travel From Pew Research

A map from Pew research showing what % of people have done international travel.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Editorial in The Economist is worth a read. But it's not superpowers who are holding the world to ransom. It's two humans who think that running their countries is about winning and losing...they stack up wins like one stacks up casino chips or gaming tokens. Let the world lose. They don't care.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Busy preparing for a book launch on 15th May. Also immersed in translating my 1st novel -The Hawa Mahal Murders - into Marathi. Am bad at marketing but this time determined to do several on-the-ground activities. #books #crimefiction #therajwadapoisonings #thehawamahalmurders 📚💙

Back cover of the book The Rajwada Poisonings

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

There's this #democracy map by The Economist. Countries like China, Russia and N. Korea, M-E countries, and some in central Africa haven't changed much. Others have fallen, but not that badly, not yet.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The Tesla Files - the inside story of Musk's empire, tells us how rotton his empire is from the inside, never mind the profits. Poor attention to safety, humiliation of employees, toxic work atmosphere....the list goes on. #booksky 💙 📚 www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/bo...

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This graphic compares initial public approval for major U.S. conflicts since '41 (data fr NYT). U.S. support for new wars rapidly falling. WWII saw backing at 97%, vs just 41% for Iran in 2026. What beats is why even this much? Why should any people support wars unless they are defensive in nature?

Graph showing attitude to different wars in the US

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Kids have ambitions which are unreal, never meant to be realised. Mine was to be an astronaut. Had this in my head till the age of 13. Maybe that's why I became obsessed with Sci-Fi later on. Read the Foundation series thrice. Been enjoying this image for 2 days now...latest from NASA.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I love wine and I guess that means I am not young anymore.While production has been hit due to weather disruption, consumption has fallen quite a lot. The younger generations are not drinking wine. Too many alternatives. Overall younger generations are not drinking that much. (chart from voronoi)

chart showing wine production and consumption decreasing decade by decade.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Global nuclear warheads are at 9,614. Since 2020, China has increased its stockpiles from 350 to 600 in 2025, and by 2030 it is projected to have 1,000 nuclear weapons.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Casualties of the US-Israel-Iran war till now:

Map showing the dead and injured in the US-Israel-Iran war.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is what we are usually treated to on our evening walks…it’s not just the peacocks…the bird sounds are wonderful to hear. #nature #birds #wildlife

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We all know that the Japanese live the longest but surprising that so many countries in Europe are not far behind. China doesn't fair too well and nor does India. Physical activity is the critical factor for a long life...as is wealth...wish we could compare it to African countries though.

chart showing life expectancy. Japan has the highest life expectancy among the world’s largest economies, at 85 years.
Indonesia, ranked 17th globally by GDP in 2025, has the lowest life expectancy at 72 years.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Being comfortable doesn't make you happy, but feeling loved does. That's why you find happy faces in countries with a low happiness index & fewer happy faces in the "happiest" ones. So don't believe those indexes. How to Feel Loved by Lyubomirsky & Reis, is a book about happiness. #booksky 💙 📚

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

China and Brazil account for maximum deposits of rare earth minerals, but China is by far the largest producer. Brazil doesn't produce much though it has large reserves. I guess that might change soon.

China produces the max rare earth minerals in the world, followed by Myanmar, Australia, and Thailand.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Countries with the largest proven oil reserves. Venezuela and Saudi Arabia and Iran have the most.

Countries with the largest proven oil reserves. Graph.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

A large percentage of Americans are either atheists or agnostics. 29 out of 100 Americans are not religious at all. #religion

Chart showing the distribution of different religions in America. Christianity the largest religious bloc in the country. But a large % says they (76 million) U.S. adults say they have no religious affiliation.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The U.S. Asian population has more than doubled since 2000. Chinese Americans are the largest Asian origin group in the US, 22% of the Asian population. Followed by Indian Americans at 21 %. However, the % of Asian immigrants is declining. From Pew Research.

Chart showing: Indian Americans, 5.2 million (21% of the Asian population)
Filipino Americans, 4.6 million (19%)
Vietnamese Americans, 2.3 million (9%)
Korean Americans, 2.0 million (8%)
Japanese Americans, 1.6 million (7%)

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The world’s safest and least safe countries, based on Gallup’s Global Safety Report 2025. Singapore is safest & South Africa is the least safe globally. tinyurl.com/bdeyvstk

Top 10 most safe and least safe countries.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

These stats are telling: The number of pilots/co-pilots employed and number of aircrafts in service are quite skewed for some airlines, like Indigo for example. Air India has many planes grounded currently so they have extra pilots.

How airlines are staffed relative to their fleet size. And the Number of pilots/co-pilots employed and number of aircrafts in service for selected major airlines

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Only 6 of top 20 songs of 2025 are from 2025! And only 3 of the top 10 are from 2025. Nostalgia & escapism is just one of the reasons. Another is that many of these came out late last year. And there’s been a lack of megastar albums this year. #albums #music #songs sherwood.news/culture/only...

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The editor, The Economist, says no point demonising the Right. It's not just in Europe but also in Japan that the Right is rising. Some Right politicians are appalling but not all. To counter them, just claiming that they will bring about the end of the world will not work.

Think back to the presidential campaign Joe Biden (and then Kamala Harris) fought against Donald Trump. The Biden camp's clinching argument was supposed to be that Mr Trump was a threat to democracy and the Republic. It didn't wash: Mr Trump took back power with a bigger share of the vote than in 2016, when he beat Hillary Clinton.
I was reminded of all that in our cover package on the European populist right this week. As we report, support for the Alternative for Germany., National Rally and Reform UK is surging. In response, the very respectable leaders of Britain, France and Germany have warned of the catastrophe facing Europe. Just last week, Britain's prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, told Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist's editor-in-chief, that Reform UK was a challenge to "the very essence of who we are as a nation"
The doctrines of the populist right do indeed contain much to condemn. Yet talking about them in apocalyptic terms is destined to fail. The doom-mongering of mainstream politicians smacks of an attempt to draw attention away from their own failures in office. Given the strikingly normal way Giorgia Meloni is running Italy, their apocalyptic predictions are not credible.
For their own sake, and for the good of their countries, mainstream politicians and their supporters urgently need a different approach

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The global #wealth pyramid for 2025: Just 1.6% of people hold nearly 48% of the global wealth. And 82% of the world’s population, control just 12.7% of total wealth. This is where humanity has reached but it shouldn't be our destination.

Graph showing that just 1.6% of adults worldwide hold nearly 48% of global wealth, sitting at the top of the pyramid.
Almost 3.1 billion adults, or 82% of the world’s population, control just 12.7% of total wealth.
The bottom wealth tier, with less than $10k in assets, represents 1.55 billion adults but only 0.6% of global wealth.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Lee Kuan Yew was a Singaporean statesman and the founding father of the modern Singaporean state. This is a quote of his:

A quote which says: "Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts."

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

International migration has become a political flashpoint. Out of OECD countries, Switzerland has the largest share of migrants at 31.1%, followed by Australia at 30%. Canada is at 22%, UK at 17% and US at 15%. (Chart by Visual Capitalist).

A chart showing international migration.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

S.Korea, Taiwan & Singapore have the lowest #fertility rates while Chad, Somalia and Congo have the highest. World fertility rate is declining, averaging 2.25 children per woman, a 6.2% drop from 2019. Population replacement rate is 2.1.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Amongst adults raised religiously unaffiliated, 93% still don't identify with any religion. And Hindus & Muslims rarely change their religion. As a Hindu I know why – you can be agnostic & still be a Hindu. Christians are most likely to change their religion. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Chart showing the percentage of people from different religions who have switched religions.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It’s taking less & less time for new tech to go mainstream. Took 30 years for Radio/TV, 25 for internet, 26 for email, 27 for mobiles, 16 for smartphones, 9 for usb…and #AI, invented in 2017, is believed to be mainstream already. This is our fate. #technology www.voronoiapp.com/technology/-...

Chart showing that the time taken for new technology to go mainstream is reducing.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

When I was growing up it was always The Phantom. Though I loved Tarzan too…

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Shows like The Diplomat ring hollow because of such fake dialogues. This is the US ambassador to the UK talking - she is the lead in the show, supposedly the brightest of them all.

A screenshot from The Diplomat with the main lead, the US ambassador to the UK, saying: We invade violent countries to make them peaceful.

US ambassador to the UK claiming that “We don’t invade authoritarian countries to make them democratic.”

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Developed countries like Canada, Ireland, S Korea, have the highest shares of college adults (55–65%);emerging nations like India & Mexico have strikingly high proportions of adults with no high school edu, a stark contrast with dev nations Germany has a strong vocational system... #education

A graph showing that over 75% of adults in India have not completed high school (12th grade) and barely 15% have higher education. Developed nations are at the other end of the spectrum.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Passport ranking in 2025: Singapore, S. Korean & Japanese passports are the most powerful in the world, followed by Germany & Italy. It's the number of visa-free destinations that clinches your rank, but economic stability & diplomatic relations matter too. www.henleyglobal.com/passport-ind...

World map showing countries with the most powerful passports.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Indian women are not just embracing financial independence, they are rejecting traditional gender roles. They are following a world-wide trend, as Morgan Stanley stats show. Almost half of all women will be single and childless by 2030, the largest share in history. A significant societal shift.

Images showing that unmarried women in India have increased by almost 10% from 2022 to 2021 and that 45% of women all over the world aged 25-44 will be single and childless by 2030.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

These graphs show who bought Russia fuels after the bans. As you can see, the EU continued to buy even after imposing the bans themselves. Other countries did too...but India was the only one punished severely. I guess because we have nothing to blackmail the US with.

Data on the sale of Russian oil and the countries buying it

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Adults from 25 countries see spread of false info online, the global economy & terrorism as major threats today. But the real threat is from lunatic global leaders who fuel these disasters. Chaos, fear, poverty and hatred helps them consolidate their power. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

A graph showing that 7 in 10 adults across nations surveyed view false info, economic conditions and terrorism as major threats.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

International adoptions have reduced drastically in the west, bc origin countries like China, Guatemala, Russia, Korea banned it. A few rich nations like Netherlands & Denmark banned their own citizens from doing it. But the murky world of international surrogacy is rising. tinyurl.com/a8nmk8fp

Graphs showing drastic decline in adoptions to western countries from poorer nations. It's been almost a 90% drop over the last few decades.

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