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🧑🏽‍🎓phding politics: @uqpolitics 📚notes on emotions + belonging + South Asia 📮curates: fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me ✨blog: adarshbadri.me 📍brisbane, australia

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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me/p/notes-on-t... I review Amia Srinivasan's book "The Right to Sex" in the fuzzy notes. polisky politics philsky
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notes on the right to sex
Today, the incel culture has permeated across societies.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
new essay on spin dictatorship. fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me/p/notes-on-s...
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notes on spin dictators
There once was a time when dictators were responsible for the deaths of millions of people.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me/p/notes-on-a... notes on mother mary comes to me. Arundati Roy booksky book review
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notes on Arundhati Roy’s mother Mary comes to me
There was something—deeply etched in me—that made me dislike Arundhati Roy.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
notes on human acts open.substack.com/pub/fuzzynot...
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notes on Han Kang’s human acts
In one of the chapters of Han Kang’s Human Acts, a character, who had been jailed and tortured, asks: ‘Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel?
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Since Narendra Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist party swept to power in 2014, India has gradually become a minimum democracy. There are regular elections, but democracy seems to have stopped there. #cjpprotests #india #indiandemocracy fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me/p/notes-on-m...
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notes on minimum democracy
Since Narendra Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist party swept to power in 2014, India has gradually become a minimum democracy.
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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#OpenAccess - Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics - cup.org/4bpYz8z "we introduce and build on existing scholarship that presents emotions as central to how rituals create a sense of collective unity" - Emma Hutchison & @bleiker.bsky.social #FirstView
Image for "International Theory" with a globe graphic. Text reads "#OpenAccess".
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
In a book titled #TheJakartaMethod: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, #VincentBevins examines the role the United States played in regime change operations and the mass extermination of communists globally. adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Vincent Bevins’ The Jakarta Method – Adarsh Badri
In The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins examines the role the United States played in regime change and the mass extermination of communists.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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William Zinsser on writing well
notes on Zinsser's tips for writing a non-fiction
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Scotty Hendricks @scottyhendricks.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It's a great day for philosophy. #philsky
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Join us in person or online for our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social events to hear about new research from @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester), Saffron O'Neill (Exeter), @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In Human Acts, Kang illustrates just how cruel and gruesome these days were, and how easy it was to reduce human beings into a ‘lump of meat’. adarshbadri.me/book-review/... #bookreview #hankang #humanacts booksky
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Review of Han Kang’s Human Acts – Adarsh Badri
In one of the chapters of Han Kang’s Human Acts, one of the characters, who had been jailed and tortured, asks: ‘Is it true that human beings are
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“What matters is today’s headline, today’s crowd, today’s assertion of dominance.” Trump, narcissism, and the American Psycho of it all.
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American Psycho: How Donald Trump Brought the “Bateman Doctrine” to the World
There is a moment in American Psycho when Patrick Bateman realizes that the rules do not apply to him. Not because he has outsmarted the system, and not because the system has collapsed, but becaus…
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 23/01/2026
Fair question
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Delighted to join the podcast of the @risjnl.bsky.social - one of my favorite journals - to discuss the topic of my @mybisa.bsky.social keynote in Belfast last June - Seeing and Sensing World Politics - with my colleague @sebkaempf.bsky.social.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Paul Graham on writing well open.substack.com/pub/fuzzynot...
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Paul Graham on writing well
Notes on Paul Graham’s essays on writing
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
books I read in 2025 substack.com/@adarshbadri...
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books I read in 2025
a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Witnessing such socio-political upheavals and transformations, and pursuing a PhD simultaneously, is a considerable amount of work. In such circumstances, even as the world begins to fall apart, one brick at a time, I take refuge in books. fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me/p/books-i-re...
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books I read in 2025
a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Witnessing such socio-political upheavals and transformations, and pursuing a PhD simultaneously, is a considerable amount of work. In such circumstances, even as the world begins to fall apart, one brick at a time, I take refuge in books. fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me/p/books-i-re...
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books I read in 2025
a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 04/01/2026
“Those who advocate for international law may now find themselves appealing to a vanishing world order in which Venezuela is the latest burial in an already crowded graveyard.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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European leaders appear torn in face of new world order after Venezuela attack
Leaders try to focus on what comes next, as backing for ejection of Maduro mingles uncomfortably with voicing of support for international law
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The Impossible Patient www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
In #MotherMaryComestoMe, Arundhati Roy opens her complicated, but honest, relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, who had admirably fought the world for women’s inheritance rights, but at home, with her two children, unleashed the ‘gangster-like hell. #bookreview adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me – Adarsh Badri
In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy opens her complicated, but honest, relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, or Mrs Roy.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
In #MotherMaryComestoMe, Arundhati Roy opens her complicated, but honest, relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, who had admirably fought the world for women’s inheritance rights, but at home, with her two children, unleashed the ‘gangster-like hell. #bookreview adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me – Adarsh Badri
In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy opens her complicated, but honest, relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, or Mrs Roy.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The Impossible Patient www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thanks to all in-person and online participants in our Visualising Humanitarianism ARC Linkage workshop & esp to co-organisers Anita Schenk, @adarshbadri.bsky.social, Subodha Dilhari and Haneol Mun. Photo-credit and thus absent from the picture: Michael Aird. rolandbleiker.com/visualising-hu…
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Reminder: please join us in-person next Thursday for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion 4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Deborah Levy’s "Hot Milk" is about Sofia Papastergiadis, a 25-or-so-year-old anthropologist-cum-barista, and her mother Rose, who travel to Almeria in Spain to attend a clinic in search of a diagnosis and treatment for Rose’s mysterious paralysis of her legs. adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk – Adarsh Badri
Deborah Levy’s 2016 Booker shortlisted novel Hot Milk is about Sofia Papastergiadis, a 25-or-so-year-old anthropologist-cum-barista, and her mother Rose, who
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture: Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion. Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC). 4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception. All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A Pale View of Hills was Ishiguro’s first book. It is a story narrated by Etsuko, a Japanese woman who had moved to rural England with her second husband. The story begins with an unexpected visit from her daughter, Niki. #Booksky #books #Literature adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills – Adarsh Badri
A Pale View of Hills a story narrated by Etsuko, a Japanese woman who had moved to rural England with her second husband.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
How to read a book like Virginia Woolf? #booksky #books #reading #writing
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how to read a book like Virginia Woolf?
on subtleties of reading a text
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian begins as follows: “Before my wife turned vegetarian, I had always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way”. This sentence was enough to hook me on this book. adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian – Adarsh Badri
The Vegetarian by Han Kang defies all forms of social taboos and tackles social realities, expectations and choices, opening us up to a new future.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In an exceptional debut book published in 2021, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, Amia Srinivasan argues that sexual entitlement is a symptom of patriarchal ideology. #IRsky #booksky #Polisky Polisky IRsky #feminism adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex – Adarsh Badri
In this exceptional debut book, The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan argues that sexual entitlement is a symptom of patriarchal ideology.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged. @musaalgharbi.bsky.social's We Have Never Been Woke arrives in #paperback on Oct. 7. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Sociology
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi. Now in paperback with a new preface. How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In an exceptional debut book published in 2021, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, Amia Srinivasan argues that sexual entitlement is a symptom of patriarchal ideology. #IRsky #booksky #Polisky Polisky IRsky #feminism adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex – Adarsh Badri
In this exceptional debut book, The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan argues that sexual entitlement is a symptom of patriarchal ideology.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
But, this last week, before leaving for Brisbane, Australia, I wanted to do something extraordinary and go see Pradhanmatri Sangrahalaya. And see for myself what I was missing out on for all these days. And feel what it was like to be inside Nehru’s house. adarshbadri.me/day-in-life/... #India
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A Day in the Life of Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya (Museum on Indian Prime Ministers) – Adarsh Badri
The Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya is a triangular-like structure newly constructed in recent years, just behind Nehru’s Prime Ministerial house.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian begins as follows: “Before my wife turned vegetarian, I had always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way”. This sentence was enough to hook me on this book. adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian – Adarsh Badri
The Vegetarian by Han Kang defies all forms of social taboos and tackles social realities, expectations and choices, opening us up to a new future.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
E.H. Carr writes: “The reading is guided and directed and made fruitful by the writing: the more I write, the more I know what I am looking for, the better I understand the significance and relevance of what I find” adarshbadri.me/notes/notes-...
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Notes: E.H. Carr on What is History? – Adarsh Badri
E.H. Carr's lectures soon became published as a famous book, What is History?, which discussed and debated historical theories of his time.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Between January and March 1961, a former diplomat and historian, Edward Hallett Carr, delivered six lectures as part of the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at the University of Cambridge. Carr’s lectures soon became published as a famous book, What is History? adarshbadri.me/notes/notes-...
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Notes: E.H. Carr on What is History? – Adarsh Badri
E.H. Carr's lectures soon became published as a famous book, What is History?, which discussed and debated historical theories of his time.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Between January and March 1961, a former diplomat and historian, Edward Hallett Carr, delivered six lectures as part of the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at the University of Cambridge. Carr’s lectures soon became published as a famous book, What is History? adarshbadri.me/notes/notes-...
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Notes: E.H. Carr on What is History? – Adarsh Badri
E.H. Carr's lectures soon became published as a famous book, What is History?, which discussed and debated historical theories of his time.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
#DevikaRege’s debut novel, Quarterlife, opens up and provides a chorus to the multitude of ideological perspectives—and their impending fault lines—that make up the new India. adarshbadri.me/book-review/... booksky polisky fiction books india
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Review of Devika Rege’s Quarterlife – Adarsh Badri
In this tense, slow-burning storytelling, there are no villains. There are just multitudes that shape social relations. Rege’s characters are all deeply
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
#DevikaRege’s debut novel, Quarterlife, opens up and provides a chorus to the multitude of ideological perspectives—and their impending fault lines—that make up the new India. adarshbadri.me/book-review/... booksky polisky fiction books india
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Review of Devika Rege’s Quarterlife – Adarsh Badri
In this tense, slow-burning storytelling, there are no villains. There are just multitudes that shape social relations. Rege’s characters are all deeply
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Two of the novels I read this summer, Süskind’s 'Perfume' and Yuzuki’s 'Butter' both tell stories of murder and revolve around intense sensory experiences. That got me thinking about how little philosophy seems to care about smell and taste app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/140442...
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In his essay, “Final Encounter: The Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi”, Nandy argues that Gandhian thought and ideas posed a threat to the traditional society that persisted in India. adarshbadri.me/notes/ashis-... #polisky #politicalscience #gandhi #india
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Notes on Ashis Nandy’s Essay on the Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi – Adarsh Badri
In his essay, “The Politics of Assassination of Gandhi”, Ashis Nandy argues that Gandhian ideas posed a threat to the traditional Indian society.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In his essay, “Final Encounter: The Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi”, Nandy argues that Gandhian thought and ideas posed a threat to the traditional society that persisted in India. adarshbadri.me/notes/ashis-... #polisky #politicalscience #gandhi #india
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Notes on Ashis Nandy’s Essay on the Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi – Adarsh Badri
In his essay, “The Politics of Assassination of Gandhi”, Ashis Nandy argues that Gandhian ideas posed a threat to the traditional Indian society.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
For most of June and July, I have engaged myself in archives. In this newsletter, I write about conducting archival research in the last two months, along with a brief background on some other writing I was able to get done in these months. fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me/p/readingthi... polisky IRsky
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on the subtleties of doing archival work
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Something I found in the CJH papers a few years ago.
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Minran Liu @minranliu.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
academic.oup.com/irap/article... I’m very pleased to share my latest publication, co-authored with Edward Sing Yue Chan, in which we examine why Beijing’s South China Sea policy has become increasingly coercive.
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Imagined Weakness: The peaceful riser identity and Beijing’s policy overcorrection in the South China Sea
Abstract. This article investigates why Beijing’s South China Sea (SCS) policy has become predominantly coercive under Xi Jinping. It argues that an identi
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
In #BanuMushtaq’s “Heart Lamp”, one encounters experiences of patriarchy, tradition, misogyny, and age-old customs that, in many ways, curtail a woman’s—and particularly, Muslim women’s—abilities to navigate society. #heartlamp #kannada #bookerprize adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp – Adarsh Badri
In Banu Mushtaq’s "Heart Lamp", one encounters experiences of patriarchy, tradition, misogyny, and age-old customs.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
In #BanuMushtaq’s “Heart Lamp”, one encounters experiences of patriarchy, tradition, misogyny, and age-old customs that, in many ways, curtail a woman’s—and particularly, Muslim women’s—abilities to navigate society. #heartlamp #kannada #bookerprize adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp – Adarsh Badri
In Banu Mushtaq’s "Heart Lamp", one encounters experiences of patriarchy, tradition, misogyny, and age-old customs.
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
In #BanuMushtaq’s “Heart Lamp”, one encounters experiences of patriarchy, tradition, misogyny, and age-old customs that, in many ways, curtail a woman’s—and particularly, Muslim women’s—abilities to navigate society. #heartlamp #kannada #bookerprize adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
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Review of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp – Adarsh Badri
In Banu Mushtaq’s "Heart Lamp", one encounters experiences of patriarchy, tradition, misogyny, and age-old customs.
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