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Considering I’ve basically spend all of the past year abroad, I’ve decided to enter this year’s photo contest. Check out my entries below. Camel Racing at Dawn – Oman Going Bananas – Jaipur, India Checkpoint – Hebron, West Bank Ice Cream at Sunset – Kakinada, India
Just received word that I and my reporting buddy Sean Maher (check out his website here) won the Institute of Politics Gate Reporting Grant! And we’re headed to… North Dakota! (It was Sean’s idea). We’re going to be doing an in-depth investigation on how crashing oil prices in the past year have impacted the North […]
Hi all, I’ve had my first travel article published at the Times of India, check it out here. I’ll be hopefully having another article published soon by HappyTrips.com, which is the TOI travel department, featuring the 10 most historic cafes in Prague, and two more by the Prague Post (if they get their freelancing budget […]
I’ve become fascinated with the texts that the Islamic State has been recently publishing, especially after I discovered “Hijara to the Islamic State” and “The Islamic State” online. They were a bit hard to find, as the US and UK are trying to clamp down on both, understandably – but when I found “Hijara” and […]
Hi all, I’m getting started on my next personal project: Text mining. I first got introduced to the concept by Alisha Holland, who’s a fellow (and soon to be professor at Princeton) that I did some research assistant work for. She mentioned her next project was doing some textual analysis of the political platform of […]
It was 8:58 pm one Thursday night. I was waiting for bus 184 to take me back from Hradčanská to my girlfriend’s apartment in Prague 6. As usual, I checked the crisply printed timetable first and saw the next bus was due at 9:10 pm, 12 minutes from now. Relaxing a little, I munched on a […]
In a word: No. With elaboration: No, not in the sense that pundits mean “Asian economic miracle.” I’ll explain in a moment. I’m writing this post in response to some recent comments made by the former governor of India’s Central Bank, Duvvuri Sabbarao. In his words, “If you had the Japanese miracle, the East Asian miracle, the Chinese […]
Hi all, This is the first blog post on my website, and that was possibly the most generic first sentence I could have written, but I’m mentally exhausted from wildly groping around in the jungle of web development desperately hunting for ways to set up this website exactly the way I want it so I […]