Nikhil Anand — Des Moines, Iowa

Hello!

I’m Nikhil Anand. I'm a student at the department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University where I'm learning to love and survive both graduate school and New York City as my wife and our diva husky send me good vibes from home in Iowa

Here’s a little more about me and what I’m up to now. I’d love to hear from you and hope you have a most splendid day 🖖🏽

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Holi in India, March 1792March 1792 Oudh, India Dear Anne, When I write upon the subject of India, to answer your queries—well, in India there is never a straight answer to any question. The other day I asked Fatema, our gardener’s daughter, if she knew who started Holi,
Dogma for TypographersPaul Stiff wrote this inspirational list of dos and don’ts for typographers in 1999. It was written in response to an email circulated by Robin Kinross requesting typographic equivalents for the Dogme 95 injunctions of Danish film-makers. Readers
I am very little concerned with confronting, disrupting, or disturbing. I am too tired, too old now to be about that sort of activity. No longer do I wish to be an irritant, but rather a spreader of balm.
A graduate student used the word “voluntold” in conversation. I’d never heard of it and love it.
Some Textile Patterns from the 1920sI photographed these at a 2015 exhibit in Chicago and saved them to perhaps use as funky webpage backgrounds. I still remember them being so beautiful and absolutely hypnotic in person. They were designed in Austria, Paris, Munich, and Russia.
The Magic Soviet SpoonAs told by Dr. Mihaly Mezei, Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, at a seminar at my department. It reminded me of an old joke […] Khruschev and Bulganin, at that time when there was a Soviet Union, were visiting the Queen of England.