Paul Graham on writing well

Notes on Paul Graham’s essays on writing

Jan 16 • Adarsh Badri

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books I read in 2025

a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD

Jan 8 • Adarsh Badri

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October 2025

how to read a book like Virginia Woolf?

on subtleties of reading a text

Oct 25, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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July 2025

reading/thinking

on the subtleties of doing archival work

Jul 30, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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June 2025

meme intimacy

the reason we share memes with others

Jun 22, 2025 • Kanchan

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why Indian parents want their children to become civil servants

Mimetic Desires and Social Expectations of Cracking IAS.

Jun 7, 2025 • 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, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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May 2025

how (not) to take meaningful breaks from your PhD

on meeting people, watching movies, and reading books

May 2, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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March 2025

notes on surviving a cyclone—that never was

the diary entries on cyclone alfred

Mar 29, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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February 2025

how I became a runner

On running and life.

Feb 22, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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making sense of writing and life

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

Feb 18, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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January 2025

books, movies, and PhD in 2024

things I read, wrote, and watched in 2024.

Jan 2, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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