About

Hi, I'm Manav. I am a medical student; medicine is my tékhnē makrḗ. In everything else I am a dilettante, but I enjoy reading widely. This blog is mostly—but not exclusively—an outlet for these wanderings.

I am reading a lot of Chekhov at the moment. Chekhov and Pushkin (do you see what I am going through?). My favourite poet as of writing this is Housman, but I like quite a few.

Contact

Please direct all thoughts, comments, criticisms, boiling hatred, appreciation, marriage proposals, comments about the weather, etc. to:

manav at palingsun dot com

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This blog is built with Eleventy, a static site generator; I have written about its merits here. It is hosted for free on Netlify. The light theme palette is based on Steph Ango's Flekoxi colour scheme. The dark theme palette is based on Nord. The font used is a subset WOFF2 version of EB Garamond. Posts are written in the Markdown notes app Bear.

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