V.H. Belvadi — Britain ignores the hard-right at its own peril • (Venkatram Harish Belvadi)
The people are doing their bit, the Labour government is not| vhbelvadi.com
You can’t meet terrifying politics except with politics of your own. “Violence and extreme violence are part of our politics in a way that’s only going to get worse.” It’s hard, if you were frightened in London on Saturday – whether because you were part of the 5,000-strong counterprotest, or because you were not white – to see how you sit that out. “People are really demoralised. People feel life is tough. In the migration sector, in the refugee sector, in the climate sector,...| V.H. Belvadi
The people are doing their bit, the Labour government is not| vhbelvadi.com
Implementing analytics on this website| vhbelvadi.com
A call for individuals to take back rights and control from the corporate web| vhbelvadi.com
It just struck me that, save for particularly memorable stories or especially eye-opening arguments, I do not ‘remember’ most of the books I have read. I can recall which ones I liked and roughly why I liked them, but I cannot recount the plot minutely or repeat all the points made in a non-fiction work. For long I thought this was just me until I came across this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: ‘I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they...| V.H. Belvadi
‘Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still.’ — Barry Schwartz (The Paradox of Choice) My earliest choices in music were not my own. As a kid who lugged his cassette-powered Walkman with him everywhere, I started off listening to songs my parents had collected over the years. I had recategorised our entire music library into my favourites and my own mixtapes long before I started discov...| V.H. Belvadi
It is yet another week and time for my weekly roundup of interesting links from my feed reader from the past fortnight. This is an exercise in ensuring that my website is not a dead-end on the web and that it leads readers forward to other similarly interesting places. I’m covering a few weeks this time round simply because I was travelling and could not publish compilations over the last couple of weeks. Here goes— Annie Mueller talks about ritualising everything in a precious short essa...| V.H. Belvadi
Writing has always been a lonely endeavour and there is no changing that| vhbelvadi.com
V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog| vhbelvadi.com
Meditating on the colours in my life| vhbelvadi.com
V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog| vhbelvadi.com
V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog| vhbelvadi.com
Kev Quirk recently asked his readers what kind of blogs they like to read which made me scroll through my own feed reader to see what kind of blogs I subscribe to. There were a couple of interesting insights, but also a tiny idea: every once in a while (I am not yet sure of the frequency) I want to highlight a handful of recent articles from my feed reader that I particularly liked. Think of it as my way of ensuring the IndieWeb remains a rich, meaningful web (see my manifesto for more) or, a...| V.H. Belvadi
“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.” —William Eggelston Sawb’worth, Herts, June 2025 — Photowalks have always been an exceptionally good way for me to rejuvenate my photographic interests. I enjoy them for the knowledge they bring both about the place and about photography, the cameraderie with fellow photographers, and a strength in numbers. The latter is particularly important for someone like me who is q...| V.H. Belvadi
Incredibly vivid and utterly unforgettable| vhbelvadi.com
Before people around the world were connected by the internet the proliferation of new ideas and modern technologies was slow. This was bad for the originators who had no means of quickly gauging where their product stood without taking risks for longer periods initially. It was not until the dust settled as more people, across more continents, slowly took to using this new invention that the companies producing them could rest easy. Part one Consider the vacuum cleaner. A common household ap...| V.H. Belvadi
Long gone but still necessary| vhbelvadi.com
I stumbled upon this old response on Threads from Jim Richardson—one of my favourite contemporary photographers—which I found via a link to an entirely different, and unrelated, post on that platform thanks to a comment on Reddit that I came across as a result of a search on DuckDuckGo. So much for avoiding internet rabit holes, but at least this time I was led to somewhere meaningful. Commenting on yet another photography ‘tip’ discussing the rule of thrids, Jim asks— You know, for...| V.H. Belvadi
“The source of your disappointment changes but the constant is that you’re always disappointed.” —Kate (played by Leslie Bibb in Season 3 of The White Lotus) Returning with its recognisable traits of a strong cast, great writing, bold and baiting visuals, and a Scorsese-esque reliance on music throughout its eight-episode run, the third season of The While Lotus delivers, although with fewer pearls of wisdom and a lot more of what Namwali Serpell once called ‘new literalism’. Cove...| V.H. Belvadi
Perhaps about two years ago I came across John Gruber’s thoughts on Markdown. These were not his musings from back when he created the markup language but years later, in 2021, when he shared his thoughts on how Markdown was being used then. Because I would rather not link to Twitter, here are screenshots: This was his fundamental argument against the way Markdown is being used today. I am all for creators offering their opinions on their products, but I also recognise that some products—...| V.H. Belvadi
Fascist change does not jump on society, it creeps up on it| vhbelvadi.com
V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog| vhbelvadi.com
Easy does not mean better| vhbelvadi.com
