# info
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name manas kulkarni
pronouns he/him/his
hometown pune, india
year 2025
concentration economics & government
house pforzheimer
# bio
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i lived most of my life in mumbai and pune, india. at age 16, i moved to armenia to attend an international boarding school called united world college dilijan where i lived and learned alongside 200 students from over 90 different countries. after graduating and before coming to harvard, i took a gap year and worked at a similar school in tel aviv focused on israeli-palestinian conflict resolution.
some of my personal and professional interests include early-stage investing, real estate, poverty alleviation, taxation policy, comparative politics, social democracy, linguistics, travel & cultural immersion, the outdoors, productivity hacking, human longevity, and mixology.
# inspo
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this website is largely adapted from the ps70 documentation website created by kalos chu. additionally, it draws inspiration from paul graham's personal website. when asked why he wastes screen space by making the text on his site so narrow, he answers, "the aim of web design is not to use all available screen space. it is legibility. text is most legible with no more than 70 characters per line."