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/readingthink…

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. Read: adarshbadri.me/notes/ashis-na… via Adarsh Badri

NEW✨ Untold Stories of Britain's queer South Asians Desi Queers: South Asians and Cultural Belonging in Britain by churnjeet mahn University of Strathclyde Dr Rohit K Dasgupta LSE Gender & DJ RITU MBE💙 Hurst Publishers Review by Kanchan South Asian Heritage Month #SouthAsianHeritageMonth blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofboo…

#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/re…

Absolutely agree. This will lead to a police state with police stations, dominant and not physically answerable to courts.

Is it just me struggling with Amazon India or has it made it entirely impossible to reach them via mail? Cause their help/service page keep showing random options but no place with an email ID to contact. #amazonindia #amazonshopping #Amazon

Between January and March 1961, a diplomat and #historian, Edward Hallett Carr, delivered six lectures as part of the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at the #UniversityofCambridge. #History #historiography adarshbadri.me/notes/notes-eh…

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. #hankang #thevegetarian deborah smith 🍉 durga ki maa adarshbadri.me/book-review/re…

The First Sitaram Yechury Memorial Lecture on September 15, Monday at 3pm is to be delivered by Prof Irfan Habib. 📍HKS Surjeet Bhawan, New Delhi

Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths is now out in paperback and it has an evocative new cover! To me, it brings to mind some of René Magritte's paintings from the 1950s and 60s. Thanks Princeton University Press for the new design.

Considering that historians are deeply implicated in the lives and times of their society, one must begin by examining the historians who make history. “The historian, before he begins to write history, is the product of history”. adarshbadri.me/notes/notes-eh…

But, this last week, before leaving for Brisbane, Australia, I wanted to do something extraordinary and go see #PradhanmatriSangrahalaya, 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/pr…

Our call for papers for Michaelmas 2025 is live! It's a shorter turnaround this term, but to any and all all graduate students, send us your abstracts for all your memory-and-emotion-related historical scholarship by 3RD OCTOBER 2025. Hope to read many of your submissions soon!

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. Amia Srinivasan adarshbadri.me/book-review/am…

how to read a book like Virginia Woolf? fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me/p/how-to-read-…

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. adarshbadri.me/book-review/ka… #APaleViewOfHills

Advice on living well, from the jacaranda: once in a while you will have to make a big beautiful mess and not give a single thought to the clean up.