Radhika Jagtap, photographed in a kalamkari sari against soft window light.
Radhika JagtapPhD, International Law

PhD, International Law

A scholar of international law,
a student of social movements,
a writer of small rooms.

A teacher of international law, perpetual student of social movements, and a writer in a world of ideas.

Currently — Assistant Professor, School of Law, UPES, Dehradun.

My line of work

I work at a juncture where Public International Law meets questions of gender, movements and critical thought.

The rest of the site is a room around my work — aspirational areas of contemplation and cognitive processes that inform my world view.

“Experienced, toughened, well-worked.”

I learned the word late and held onto it. It names something I’ve been trying to live: the slow painful transformation, the groundwork before launch, the patience of building from the soil up.

Not romantic. Just real.

JNU campus gates rendered in the visual language of Studio Ghibli — a slow green afternoon, students walking toward the gate, terracotta planters along the path.
JNU gates, in the language of Ghibli. The campus where the M.Phil and PhD were written.

Lineage

Kahlo. Marx.
Ambedkar. Mahasweta Devi.

Sometimes I find myself in conversation with people who saw a world that hadn’t arrived yet — and made it visible anyway. In paint, in prose, in language that refused to soften.

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”

— Frida Kahlo

Four rooms

This site is a room I keep.

For essays I’m finishing, talks I’m preparing, short thoughts I want to put down before they fade, letters I keep writing to whoever — sometimes myself, sometimes the future.

01

Read

Writings & Published works

Essays · Notes · Academic

Notes on a word I kept — and the kind of work it names.

02

Listen

Engagements & Cascading

Talks · Panels · Hosting · Moderation

Most recently at Faculty of Law, Savitribai Phule Pune University.

03

Glance

Everyday Mind-Musings

Short notes · Posted often

A feed for the small things — a paragraph that arrived in the wrong place, a quote that wouldn't leave, a photograph and a sentence.

Selected publications

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The site is being built slowly, the way the work it documents is done. New writing arrives when it arrives. Talks are added after they happen. There is no newsletter, no algorithm. If you want to be in touch, say hello.