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Bhaskar, Rose

Rose Bhaskar spends her life as a writer, exploring how that calling operates within higher education, industry, and politics in a globalizing world. A researcher by training, she holds two graduate degrees grounded in qualitative research and international practice. What interests Rose in any project is the chance to write a story that bridges perspectives and provokes thought. Her priorities as a creative are truth, voice, and aesthetic. You can find Rose featured across several literary magazines, on her Substack, Rose Writes Stuff, and elsewhere online.

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Essays and Philosophy

An Absolutely Average Summer in Los Angeles contemporary

Rose Bhaskar

Rose Bhaskar reads Los Angeles as a lived geography of American capitalism, where precarity and conspicuous consumption, racialised class experience and the mythology of individual self-invention coexist in an uneasy intimacy that continually unsettles the fantasy of meritocratic distinction. Through an interrogation of the survival mindset inherited across generations, she explores how the internalisation of scarcity and competition shapes our perception of others, opening toward an ethics of attention in which solidarity, ordinary pleasure, and receptivity to the irreducible complexity of human experience become ways of inhabiting a world that exceeds the demands of productivity and self-optimisation.

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Essays and Philosophy

how to have a five-year plan when the world is falling apart contemporary

Rose Bhaskar

Rose Bhaskar interrogates the exhaustion produced by a political economy that commodifies attention, instrumentalises collective suffering, and increasingly delegates the burden of systemic crisis to those already dispossessed of security, time, and autonomy. Reclaiming joy as a practice of refusal, she advances a radical reconfiguration of political engagement in which the defence of interior life, ordinary pleasures, and uncommodified human connection becomes a challenge to the extractive logic of capitalism and its demand that resistance itself be rendered an inexhaustible resource.

  • politics
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