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Adarsh Badri
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📚notes on emotions + belonging + South Asia
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Feb 5
🚨New Article Alert

I’m thrilled to announce that my “Feeling for the Anthropocene” paper has been published as an advanced article with IAJournal_CH.

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Polisky, political science, politics, environmental politics, global south
Feeling for the Anthropocene: affective relations and ecological activism in the global South
How do emotions shape ecological activism? By drawing insights from the Chipko movement in India, this article moves beyond a state-centric lens to discuss how
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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...
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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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.

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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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November 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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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...
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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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

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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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October 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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How to read a book like Virginia Woolf?

#booksky #books #reading #writing
how to read a book like Virginia Woolf?
on subtleties of reading a text
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October 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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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.

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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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September 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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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

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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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October 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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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.
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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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

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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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October 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
adarshbadri.bsky.social
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.

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#India
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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September 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
adarshbadri.bsky.social
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/...
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.
adarshbadri.me
September 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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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”

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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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September 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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?

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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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September 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
adarshbadri.bsky.social
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-...
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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September 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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#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.

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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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August 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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#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
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
adarshbadri.me
August 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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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
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August 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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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
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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August 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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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
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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August 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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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.

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polisky IRsky
reading/thinking
on the subtleties of doing archival work
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July 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Something I found in the CJH papers a few years ago.
July 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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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.
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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July 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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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

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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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June 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
adarshbadri.bsky.social
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

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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.
adarshbadri.me
June 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
adarshbadri.bsky.social
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/...
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.
adarshbadri.me
June 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM