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
Short Stories and Satires from Salad Days
Publisher: Purbanchal Prakash
Year: 2021
When, in the 1970s, acclaimed author Arup Kumar Dutta began his writing career, there were very few avenues for the publishing of English writing. The global space technology like the internet provides today was absent Apart from a few publishing houses, very picky in what they publish, located far away, there were a handful of magazines, brought out from Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, etc. such as The Illustrated Weekly of India, Shankar's Weekly, Camvan, JS, Femina, Eve's Weekly, Women's Era and Youth Times. Because these were just a few droplets in the ocean that was India, the competition to get something published in them was fierce. By dint of prolonged effort, Arup Kumar Dutta succeeded in getting his short stories and pieces of satire published at a national level. This book is a compilation of some of those short stories and satires published during the author's salad days. Also included are specimens of his pioneering satiric column, titled Columnus Venomous under the penname of Scorpion. Though a product of his earlier period, these short stories and satires retain their vivacity and universality even in contemporary times.
Publisher: Purbanchal Prakash
Year: 2021
When, in the 1970s, acclaimed author Arup Kumar Dutta began his writing career, there were very few avenues for the publishing of English writing. The global space technology like the internet provides today was absent Apart from a few publishing houses, very picky in what they publish, located far away, there were a handful of magazines, brought out from Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, etc. such as The Illustrated Weekly of India, Shankar's Weekly, Camvan, JS, Femina, Eve's Weekly, Women's Era and Youth Times. Because these were just a few droplets in the ocean that was India, the competition to get something published in them was fierce. By dint of prolonged effort, Arup Kumar Dutta succeeded in getting his short stories and pieces of satire published at a national level. This book is a compilation of some of those short stories and satires published during the author's salad days. Also included are specimens of his pioneering satiric column, titled Columnus Venomous under the penname of Scorpion. Though a product of his earlier period, these short stories and satires retain their vivacity and universality even in contemporary times.
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
