Adarsh Badri

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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

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’.

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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…

“What matters is today’s headline, today’s crowd, today’s assertion of dominance.” Trump, narcissism, and the American Psycho of it all.

Fair question

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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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.

Paul Graham on writing well Notes on Paul Graham’s essays on writing

Paul Graham on writing well
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books I read in 2025 a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD

books I read in 2025
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books I read in 2025 a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD

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.

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books I read in 2025 a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD

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.

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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

“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...

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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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.

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.

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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.

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

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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...

The Impossible Patient www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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…

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...

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

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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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...

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.

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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how to read a book like Virginia Woolf? on subtleties of reading a text

How to read a book like Virginia Woolf?

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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.

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 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.

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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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.

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...

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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.

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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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.

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

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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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