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/...

It's a great day for philosophy. #philsky

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...

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

“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

A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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 open.substack.com/pub/fuzzynot...

books I read in 2025 substack.com/@adarshbadri...

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...

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...

“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...

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

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/...

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/...

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...

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/...

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...

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/...

How to read a book like Virginia Woolf? #booksky #books #reading #writing

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/...

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/...

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

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/...

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

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/...

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-...

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-...

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-...

#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

#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

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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/...

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/...

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/...

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...

🚨 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...

Modi’s global aspirations are out of sync with New Delhi’s capacity to shape international outcomes, while India’s domestic conditions are often difficult to reconcile with its aspirations as the leader of the Global South, @adarshbadri.bsky.social‬ writes.

Modi has sought to position India as the leader of the Global South. But as @adarshbadri.bsky.social‬ writes, the country has struggled to match its foreign policy ambition with achievements.

🚨 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...

An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers