Skip to main content

Nikhil Clifford

Observations

← All notebook entries

  • New York, New York

    New York, New York

    A photograph by Brooklyn based photographer, Billy Dinh. At the outset, let me say it- I am a lousy traveller. Sure, everyone likes the odd break from routine and change of scenery- I do too, especially with good company. But I think I am a little thrown off by this idea of backpacking and nomadic…

    Read More »


  • Walk, Don’t Run

    Walk, Don’t Run

    One of my adolescent fantasies has always been to go into the woods, think about transcendentalism,  find my own Walden pond and live there like Thoreau although it is a common misconception that he lived in isolation. It suited my introversion well but if I wanted to start somewhere, I would have started with the…

    Read More »


  • Let us get the first kiss out of the way, shall we?

    Let us get the first kiss out of the way, shall we?

    I believe it must be ten years now. Ten? Yeah. More or less. These things hardly make sense at the time, right? Kierkegaard said ,”Life must be lived forwards but can be understood backwards.” So around the time college – I studied Architecture-  was ending, I had a lengthy existential crisis and back then, I…

    Read More »