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Adarsh Badri

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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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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · 12d

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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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Sep 7

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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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Oct 1

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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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Oct 1

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Oct 1

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Sep 17

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Sep 7

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Aug 14

#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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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

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Aug 14

#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

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Jul 30

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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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · Jul 26

Something I found in the CJH papers a few years ago.

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Minran Liu @minranliu.bsky.social · Jul 26

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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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Jun 27

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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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Jun 6

I argue for the Australian Outlook that the #USforeignpolicy, once defined by its messianic zeal to make the world safe for #democracy, under Donald Trump has embraced an inward-looking 'America First' doctrine.

www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

Reflections on Messianic Rhetoric in US Foreign Policy - Australian Institute of International Affairs

Once defined by its missionary zeal to “make the world safe for democracy,” US foreign policy has increasingly shifted away from messianic rhetoric. The rise and decline of America’s interventionist i...

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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨 New in @wpr.bsky.social

To Lead the Global South, India Must Get Its Own House in Order

This essay deals with the contradictions between India’s foreign policy ambitions and its domestic contradictions.

IRsky Polisky

@judah-grunstein.bsky.social

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/india-politi...

To Lead the Global South, India Must Get Its Own House in Order

Under Modi, India wants to be the leader of the Global South. But its domestic challenges are an obstacle to its foreign policy ambition.

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