ARUP KUMAR DUTTA is a fulltime author and freelance journalist from Assam in North-East India who has attained international recognition. A prolific and versatile writer and scholar, during a span of five decades he has written short-fiction, long-fiction, non-fiction, satires, newspaper editorials, articles and columns, as well as books for young adults. So far he has written 18 books for adults and 17 adventure novels for young people. He has been not only acknowledged as a pioneer in English writing in the North-East, but also as a writer who has spent a lifetime familiarizing the rest of India about the history and culture of this region.
Latest Book
The Pipeline Saga
Publisher: Oil India Limited
Year: 2022
In the early 1960s the Burmah Oil Company (BOC), the progenitor of Oil India Limited (OIL), undertook the construction of a 1,158 kilometer (720 miles) long fully-automated crude oil transportation pipeline from Nahorkatiya in Upper Assam to Barauni in Bihar, in what at that period of time was the most challenging engineering project for newly independent India.
Considering that the pipeline was laid six decades back with technology which prevailed during that period --- there were not even basic facilities such as computers and laptops not to mention the sophisticated communication gadgets available today --- the construction of the Nahorkatiya-Barauni pipeline had been an extraordinary feat of engineering.
This book seeks to chronicle the titanic efforts that went into the construction of the pipeline, at that time the second longest in Asia, and the first to be fully automated. While doing so it also briefly recapitulates the circumstances leading to the birth of the Indian Petroleum Industry.
Publisher: Oil India Limited
Year: 2022
In the early 1960s the Burmah Oil Company (BOC), the progenitor of Oil India Limited (OIL), undertook the construction of a 1,158 kilometer (720 miles) long fully-automated crude oil transportation pipeline from Nahorkatiya in Upper Assam to Barauni in Bihar, in what at that period of time was the most challenging engineering project for newly independent India.
Considering that the pipeline was laid six decades back with technology which prevailed during that period --- there were not even basic facilities such as computers and laptops not to mention the sophisticated communication gadgets available today --- the construction of the Nahorkatiya-Barauni pipeline had been an extraordinary feat of engineering.
This book seeks to chronicle the titanic efforts that went into the construction of the pipeline, at that time the second longest in Asia, and the first to be fully automated. While doing so it also briefly recapitulates the circumstances leading to the birth of the Indian Petroleum Industry.
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Based as they are on meticulous, investigative research and documentation of data, Arup Kumar Dutta’s astonishingly diverse array of non-fiction books for adults exhibit the true journalistic ethos. They also testify to his wide range of interests as also remarkable scholarship and erudition. Read More
Books for Young Adults
Arup Kumar Dutta has also achieved international repute with his books of fiction for young people and ranks among the biggest names in this field. First dubbed by The Illustrated Weekly of India as ‘India’s Own Blyton’, the sobriquet has stuck to his name despite the many rejoinders issued by him. A majority of his novels have individual backgrounds and individual depiction of characters and situations, and are not set within any tried and tested formula. Read More
