New Blog!

As of today, this blog will no longer be updated.

After setting up my professional resume site, I decided to create a matching blog. Simply click on the picture above to visit the new site!

Since I began using this platform in 2015 a lot has changed - where I am, what I want to do, what I enjoy talking about. I think it's only fitting to change venues.

But all of my old posts will still be available here. 

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Review: Teach Yourself Hindi

Back in January I committed to buying and using a textbook for Hindi for the following reasons:

• Lack of solid and wholesome beginner-intermediate material
• Lack of focus 
• Desiring an offline source for vocabulary and reading practice

By the time I bought Teach Yourself Hindi I had already learned the alphabet, colors, numbers and a few greetings. This made the book very easy to slip into, as I already had a hold on the fundamentals.

The Mystic Mountain Range and Doctor Strange

Before Doctor Strange released in early November, I was already hearing quiet complaints of stereotypes and overuse of the “Mystic Near East” trope. Certainly this isn't the first time Nepal (and often India) had been reduced to gurus and isolated mountain-top monasteries. And while I enjoyed Doctor Strange, I was curious about the use of this trope in the comics and film.