Rahul Bhatia
@rahulabhatia.bsky.social
Journalist. Author of The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy; Harvard Radcliffe fellow; Winner, True Story Award 2024; New Yorker, Guardian Long Read, etc.
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Hope - not as something you have, but something you practice into being.
It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.”
Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)
It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.”
Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)
September 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Hope - not as something you have, but something you practice into being.
It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.”
Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)
It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.”
Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)
Thank you. That's very nice of you.
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Thank you. That's very nice of you.
The earlier one was on Adani. This one is about the Reliance zoo. thewire.in/environment/...
thewire.in
September 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The earlier one was on Adani. This one is about the Reliance zoo. thewire.in/environment/...
That is one heck of a coincidence. I don’t know much about him. But Savera, Polis, and HHR might. And thank you!
September 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
That is one heck of a coincidence. I don’t know much about him. But Savera, Polis, and HHR might. And thank you!
Last year the Guardian carried an excerpt from my book on how Hindu supremacist indoctrination works. I spoke with a man who blew my mind with his story of life within the RSS. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
‘Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationalism
The long read: As a young man, Partha Banerjee was on course to become a senior member of the RSS, the organisation that has pushed Indian politics towards extreme religious nationalism. Then, after 4...
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Last year the Guardian carried an excerpt from my book on how Hindu supremacist indoctrination works. I spoke with a man who blew my mind with his story of life within the RSS. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
Why the BJP’s propaganda machinery is so formidable.
September 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Why the BJP’s propaganda machinery is so formidable.
Do it for the researcher four centuries from now: bsky.app/profile/laur...
when I get a load of letters my job is basically reading someone's posts and dms but they've been dead for 100-400 years and I don't know what memes and dril tweets they're referencing
September 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Do it for the researcher four centuries from now: bsky.app/profile/laur...
(Generally not in favour of mauling books with a pencil, but now and then a great academic book comes along and that’s it. For eg. My copy of Alok Rai’s Hindi Nationalism is more graphite than ink.)
September 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
(Generally not in favour of mauling books with a pencil, but now and then a great academic book comes along and that’s it. For eg. My copy of Alok Rai’s Hindi Nationalism is more graphite than ink.)