Dipak is a father to two lovely kids & by profession he’s a Technologist with a Management background. After graduating with an MBA from Northeastern University (Boston), he worked in the US for more than a decade as a Project Manager. Life changed in a heartbeat late one evening when he met with an accident on the way back from work. It was a major motorbike accident where he lost his left leg, his hip & pelvis were smashed, 2 ribs broke (one of which pierced & punctured a lung). He was in the ICU for a week & in hospital for two months. It was at this crossroads of life that he resolved he wouldn’t accept his lot without fighting back.
9 years removed from the accident, he is now Nationally-Ranked in two Para sports:
#2 in Rowing
#8 in Triathlon, &
#9 in Squash (seniors category). Note: the 2nd-fastest sport in the world (Squash) doesn’t have a para category so he competes with regular athletes.
He’s also a Club-level Swimming medallist, Open Category.
While recovering from his accident he also wrote a biography called *Nambiarswami: the good, the bad & the holy*. It was published by HarperCollins in 2019 & chronicles the life of his famous grandfather (M.N.Nambiar). It was rated one of the top 5 biographies of the year by Hindustan Times. Incredibly, 3 months after he left the hospital on crutches, Dipak was the Man of the Finals in a city-wide Cricket tournament. He was the only disabled player in all 16 teams.
He is still an avid motorbike-rider & has a 1968 Bullet where the gears are on the right side. There are 2 overarching themes of his motivational talks in inspiring others to live life to its fullest.
1. His PPT on Nambiarswami (“A villain’s guide to business success”) correlates Nambiarswami’s rise from humble beginnings to now becoming a word for villainy in Tamil.
2. Delving on incidents from his own life, he encourages people to set short-term goals & achieving them. “Give that dream a deadline” is his motto. Because the feeling of accomplishment one gets from achieving a dream permeates into every facet of our lives, personal & professional.
