Dipan Kumar Rout

Living life between backspaces.

Point of View

  • A few weeks ago I read a LinkedIn post by someone I vaguely know. It was lovely. The kind of writing that makes you sit up a little. Sentences that turned at the right places. A metaphor that did some real work. I read it twice, which is rare for that platform. Then I scrolled…

  • There is a particular kind of vertigo that arrives when you hear your own voice in a recording. For half a second, you do not recognise it. The mouth that has been speaking your sentences for decades suddenly belongs to a stranger. You think, surely that is not how I sound. But it is. Everyone…

  • I have been thinking about AI a lot lately. Not in the way most people seem to, where it is either the greatest invention since fire or the beginning of the end. My thoughts are messier than that, more tangled, and I suspect more honest because of it. Let me start with the question everyone…

  • Sometimes it’s very frustrating to go over the cycles of motivation again and again only to come back to square one. Self mastery is difficult to attain. Here are eight steps to unfuck your life. If you’re tired of feeling beaten down by life, follow these eight steps. These steps are your compass, guiding you…

  • Anime has long captivated audiences with its vibrant storytelling, intricate worlds, and unforgettable characters.  But I’ve been bored because almost 90 percent of the anime series follow a pretty similar formula: characters discover their powers, go through a bunch of upgrades, and face increasingly tough challenges. Don’t get me wrong, that’s a big part of…

  • Many a times, I come across something nice only to lose it later because I did not jot it down somewhere. A collection of quotes, nuggets of wisdom that I have come across and has motivated me. “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.” Swami Vivekananda “Nothing in the world can take the place…

  • Random thoughts are collection of thoughts that are pretty incoherent, unordered and chaotic, that I mostly think of and think to myself. Many of these are just collections of random opinions heard from someone, may be from reels or podcasts and then a few opinion pieces of mine from here and there. Do not try to…

  • Imagine if Narendra Modi writes an article, on the common history of India and Pakistan one day and pushes for a need to re-integrate both the countries? Ok, so I made up that one but imagine if that were to happen for real, then you can have two thoughts on this; First, Narendra Modi is…

  • Zelensky is a hero – but bravery alone won’t defeat the Russians, quoted the New Statesman on their Mar 1, 2022 editorial. Its very rare that I write an opinionated article but this article is not about taking sides. Its about the human emotion on what should be ethically right and wrong. Imagine yourself living…