Jun 1, 2023 · I write about identity, feelings, society, philosophy, and politics. When I’m not writing, I am painting, watching Netflix, or admiring Orwell!
Dear Reader, My name is Adarsh Badri, and I’m an Indian blogger and a PhD student in International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.. Earlier, I had completed my PhD coursework requirement at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament (CIPOD) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
Jul 9, 2024 · Review of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson’s Why Nations Fail: The Origin of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. April 1, 2023 July 31, 2024; Book Review
“Quad and the Indo-Pacific: Examining the Balance of Interest Theory in Quad Coalition.” Strategic Analysis. vol. 46. no. 6. pp. 601-613. December 2022.
WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES “Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in My PhD Project”, From Dreary to Theory: A Workshop on Creative Theorizing, Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies, University of Queensland, Australia, April 2024. “Feeling for the Anthropocene: Affective Relations and the Making of Ecological Activism in Postcolonial India”, Young
Review of Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman’s Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century. October 2, 2024 October 15, 2024; Book Review
Jul 18, 2023 · Underneath all these impeding everyday quibbles of not doing enough lies a tinch of “GUILT”. We feel guilty about doing nothing. (On a lighter note, Friedrich Nietzsche may have been right when he noted that “guilt is an invention of the weak” in his discussion on morality in The Genealogy of Morals.). We have, as a society, internalised doing nothing as a vice.