notes on minimum democracy

Since Narendra Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist party swept to power in 2014, India has gradually become a minimum democracy.

Aug 6 • Adarsh Badri

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notes on the history of islam

In her book Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong seeks to untangle the tumultuous history of Islam through time.

Aug 3 • Adarsh Badri

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notes on risk society

Writing against the backdrop of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, Ulrich Beck first published Risikogesellschaft in Germany in 1986.

Aug 2 • Adarsh Badri

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March 2026

william zinsser's notes on writing well

notes on Zinsser's tips for writing a non-fiction

Mar 28 • Adarsh Badri

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January 2026

paul graham's notes on writing well

notes on Paul Graham’s essays on writing

Jan 16 • Adarsh Badri

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notes on the books I read in 2025

a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD

Jan 8 • Adarsh Badri

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October 2025

notes on a pale view of hills

I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills, first published in 1982, with intense curiosity.

Oct 30, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

notes on reading like virginia woolf

on subtleties of reading a text

Oct 25, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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September 2025

notes on pradhanmantri sagrahalaya

For more than two years now, first as a research assistant on a project and later for my own PhD project, I have travelled to the Prime Ministers Museum…

Sep 18, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

notes on the vegetarian

Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian, published in South Korea in 2007 and translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015, begins as follows: “Before my…

Sep 7, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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notes on what is history

Between January and March 1961, a former diplomat and historian, particularly the historian of Russia, Edward Hallett Carr, delivered six lectures as…

Sep 4, 2025 • Adarsh Badri

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August 2025

notes on gandhi's assasination

In recent days, I have been reading essays on Mahatma Gandhi, an architect of the national independence of India from British colonial rule.

Aug 6, 2025 • Adarsh Badri