how to read a book like Virginia Woolf?

on subtleties of reading a text

Oct 25 • 

Adarsh Badri

July 2025

reading/thinking

on the subtleties of doing archival work

Jul 30 • 

Adarsh Badri

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June 2025

meme intimacy

the reason we share memes with others

Jun 22 • 

Kanchan

4

why Indian parents want their children to become civil servants

Mimetic Desires and Social Expectations of Cracking IAS.

Jun 7 • 

Adarsh Badri

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what is it like to read archives of politics

a month into doing archival research in politics

Jun 1 • 

Adarsh Badri

4

May 2025

how (not) to take meaningful breaks from your PhD

on meeting people, watching movies, and reading books

May 2 • 

Adarsh Badri

3

March 2025

notes on surviving a cyclone—that never was

the diary entries on cyclone alfred

Mar 29 • 

Adarsh Badri

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February 2025

how I became a runner

On running and life.

Feb 22 • 

Adarsh Badri

3

making sense of writing and life

Some cool stuff to read on books, life, and PhD!

Feb 18 • 

Adarsh Badri

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January 2025

books, movies, and PhD in 2024

things I read, wrote, and watched in 2024.

Jan 2 • 

Adarsh Badri

4

November 2024

books I enjoyed reading recently

a list of books I read and wrote about and the movie I watched

Nov 7, 2024 • 

Adarsh Badri

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June 2024

on Indian elections and far-right in EU elections

Check out for some cool readings, essays and links for this week.

Jun 12, 2024 • 

Adarsh Badri

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