JOURNALISTIC WRITINGS
Arup Kumar Dutta has also been engaged in freelance media journalism for over four decades, writing satiric columns under pseudonyms, and articles on ecological conservation, exigent social issues as well as themes related to Northeast India which appeared in various regional and national newspapers and periodicals. Two of his regular fortnightly columns, Carte Blanche in The Telegraph and Plain-speak in The Assam Tribune have a wide following. His satirical columns, such as Columnus Venomous written under the pseudonym Scorpion pioneered this genre of writing in English in the Northeast. He was the editor of the now defunct niche magazine titled Tea Set.
He had at one phase of his career also been an accredited contributor to the syndicated Features Section of Press Trust of India. He is on the editorial panel of the premier English newspaper of the Northeast, The Assam Tribune. Dutta has directly edited or acted as Editorial Consultant to a number of journals, both in English and Assamese. He has also made forays into documentary production, scripting and directing documentaries such as Gaoen Gaoen Bonti (A light in every village) dealing with the condition of rural schools and Archeological Excavations in Assam under the banner of Cine-Vista.
The contribution of Arup Kumar Dutta during his long stint as a freelance journalist and a trenchant critic of society towards moulding public opinion cannot be encapsulated within a few paragraphs. In 1982 he received an award from the Journalist Welfare Foundation, conferred by Shri M. Hidayutullah, then Vice President of India, at Mavalankar Auditorium, New Delhi. In 2004 he was awarded the Kamal Kumari Foundation’s National Award for Journalism
Arup Kumar Dutta has also been engaged in freelance media journalism for over four decades, writing satiric columns under pseudonyms, and articles on ecological conservation, exigent social issues as well as themes related to Northeast India which appeared in various regional and national newspapers and periodicals. Two of his regular fortnightly columns, Carte Blanche in The Telegraph and Plain-speak in The Assam Tribune have a wide following. His satirical columns, such as Columnus Venomous written under the pseudonym Scorpion pioneered this genre of writing in English in the Northeast. He was the editor of the now defunct niche magazine titled Tea Set.
He had at one phase of his career also been an accredited contributor to the syndicated Features Section of Press Trust of India. He is on the editorial panel of the premier English newspaper of the Northeast, The Assam Tribune. Dutta has directly edited or acted as Editorial Consultant to a number of journals, both in English and Assamese. He has also made forays into documentary production, scripting and directing documentaries such as Gaoen Gaoen Bonti (A light in every village) dealing with the condition of rural schools and Archeological Excavations in Assam under the banner of Cine-Vista.
The contribution of Arup Kumar Dutta during his long stint as a freelance journalist and a trenchant critic of society towards moulding public opinion cannot be encapsulated within a few paragraphs. In 1982 he received an award from the Journalist Welfare Foundation, conferred by Shri M. Hidayutullah, then Vice President of India, at Mavalankar Auditorium, New Delhi. In 2004 he was awarded the Kamal Kumari Foundation’s National Award for Journalism
