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Dipankar Sarkar

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Mumbai, Tezpur
As seen in: Medium, Mint, The Hindu, Tribune (India), The Quint, DEV Community, Scroll.in, Vague Visages, Flickside, Talking Films and
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Dipankar Sarkar’s Biography

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I am an alumnus of Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, and a freelance writer on cinema. His articles have appeared on Scroll.in, The Hindu, Livemint.com, The Quint, The Tribune (Chandigarh), Upperstall, among other publications. He has a Certificate in Film Curation: Theory and Practice from FTII and a Research Fellowship for his monograph on Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia from the National Film Archive of India, Pune (NFAI). His essay on actor Adil Hussain has been published in the …

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Candid With Kenny Deori Basumatary - THE STORY MUG

Candid With Kenny Deori Basumatary - THE STORY MUG

With the release of his debut movie Local Kung Fu (2013), filmmaker Kenny Deori Basumatary added a new feathe…

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Rajni Basumatary: Graph Of Regional Films Is Cyclical - THE STORY MUG

Rajni Basumatary has always been fascinated by the art of storytelling and she began writing stories right fr…

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737x faster LangGraph checkpoints, and the case where Rust lost

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By Dipankar Sarkar Verified, Dipankar De Sarkar Verified
| DEV Community
Run a LangGraph agent long enough and the model call stops being your bottleneck. The plumbing takes over. Every step, the graph serializes its state to a checkpoint so you can resume, replay, or recover. LangGraph does that with Python's deepcopy. For a small dict that is fine. For a 250KB agent state with nested messages, tool outputs, and accumulated context, deepcopy is brutally slow, and you pay it on every single step of a long run.
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Review: Abinash Bikram Shah's 'Elephants in the Fog'

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By Dipankar Sarkar Verified, Dipankar De Sarkar Verified
| Vague Visages Verified
Vague Visages’ Elephants in the Fog review contains minor spoilers. Abinash Bikram Shah’s 2026 movie features Maotse Gurung, Akanchha Karki and Pushpa Thing Lama. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. Elephants in the Fog is a moving and deeply empathetic portrait of transgender lives in a conservative South Asian society.
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Review: It's Only 47°C (2026)

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By Dipankar Sarkar Verified, Dipankar De Sarkar Verified
| North East Film Journal
Climate change is usually discussed through statistics, policy debates, or predictions. Tej Sisodia's short film, It's Only 47°C, takes a different approach. It strips the crisis down to its most immediate human experience—the sweat, the exhaustion, and the physical toll of surviving another day under a relentless sun. What unfolds over the course of a single day becomes a nightmare ordeal as it captures the crushing reality of life under an unforgiving heatwave.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Freelance Writer.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Never.

How is social media changing news?

Very efficiently and sometimes manipulatively.