V.H. Belvadi — The UK should be alarmed about Reform • (Venkatram Harish Belvadi)
Fascist change does not jump on society, it creeps up on it| vhbelvadi.com
Fascist change does not jump on society, it creeps up on it| vhbelvadi.com
How are these key tenets of civilisation related to each other?| vhbelvadi.com
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It is time for another roundup of interesting links from my feed reader. 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. If you have been following these compilations you might find some of the usual suspects are back this round. Here goes— Nico Solerieu writes about digital pruning in what is an exercise in extremely minimalist development. ‘Web won the fight,’ concludes Nico. ‘A bro...| V.H. Belvadi
I stumbled upon this section of a recent episode from Romesh Ranganathan’s show when he had the actress and activist Jameela Jamil as his guest. In it Jameela mentions something called ‘second screen viewing’ wherein people scroll through their phones while watching something on television. How they do that is beyond me but it is interesting that, as Jameela goes on to say, this behaviour is common enough that it has allegedly prompted producers in Hollywood to advise screenwriters to s...| V.H. Belvadi
Why analogies are best used sparingly| vhbelvadi.com
“…a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.” — Carl Jung Having spent much of my life in academia I am no stranger to being in a room filled with people far cleverer and more accomplished than I am. I have found this to be an effective reminder to keep my ego in check. Because that same academia can be a double-edged sword: sitting in your research room or hooping across ancient libraries and handling state-of-the-art technology ...| V.H. Belvadi
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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
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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
Easy does not mean better| vhbelvadi.com
