Arup kumar dutta biography of christopher

A more than 700 page monument founded on the darkest chapter of colonial Assam. Perhaps the greatest novel by one of the finest Indian-English writers from the North-East. A story against a backdrop of tea plantation life in Assam in the 1860s and the barbarous conditions whereby migrant workers were lured and enslaved, a chain of events unfold in this epical novel, leading to an unexpected, explosive climax which turns red the green leaves of Camellia! Henry David Esscombe, a pioneer tea planter, comes to Assam in the latter half of the 1850s and opens out the Dhanboa Tea Garden. However, the unhealthy Assam environment takes its toll and, gravely ill, he summons his son David to take over the plantation. His daughter, Cordelia, desperate to see her dear papa again, accompanies her brother to Assam. As the brother-sister duo struggle to adapt to the changed circumstances, a host of individuals, including the phlegmatic Michael Bailin, the devilishly charming Christopher James Buckingham, the self-confessed anarchist Reverend Garry Swanson, the Assamese nobleman Gokuldeva Barua, the defiant conscripted tea workers Bircha and Meghu and a host of others, intrude into their lives. Against a backdrop of tea plantation life in the 1860s and the barbarous conditions whereby migrant workers were lured and enslaved, a chain of events unfold in this epical novel, leading to an unexpected, explosive climax which turns red the green leaves of Camellia.

VI, VII & VIII

• THE JUNGLE BOOK BY RUDYARD KIPLING
• A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: LEMONY SNICKETT
• IGGY’S HOUSE BY JUDY BLUME
• THE CAT ATE MY GYMSUIT BY PAULA DENZIGER
• A MOMENT OF TRUTH BY SIGRUN SRIVASTAVA
• TRAPPED BY SIGRUN SRIVASTAVA
• FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND BY ARUP KUMAR DUTTA
• KAZIRANGA TRAIL BY ARUP KUMAR DUTTA
• THE CRYSTAL CAVE BY ARUP KUMAR DUTTA ( NATIONAL BOOK TRUST, CHILDREN’S BOOK TRUST)
• CARRIE’S WAR BY NINA BAWDEN
• LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE BY LAURA INGALLS WILDER
• ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK BY LAURA INGALLS WILDER
• MUDPUDDLE FARM BY MICHAEL MORPURGO
• BORN TO RUN BY MICHAEL MORPURGO
• RUSKIN BOND : PANTHER’S MOON
• RUSKIN BOND:OMNIBUS
• RUSKIN BOND: A LONG WALK FOR BINA
• FLOUR BABIES : ANNE FINE
• THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES : ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
• THE JUNGLE BOOK : RUDYARD KIPLING
• THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE : C.S.LEWIS
• THE NARNIA SERIES: C.S.LEWIS
• THE INVISIBLE MAN : H.G.WELLS
• ARTEMIS FOWL : EOIN COLFER
• AIR MAN : EOIN COLFER
• ERAGON : CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
• ELDEST : CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
• BRSINGER : CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
• THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT TIME : MARK HADDON
• THE SWITCH : ANTHONY HOLLOWAY
• MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS : GERALD DURELL
• THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4 : SUE TOWNSEND
• GANGSTA RAP : BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
• ANITA AND ME: MEERA SYAL
• FELUDA STORIES:THE GOLDEN FORTRESS, THE MYSTERY OF THE ELEPHANT GOD BY SATYAJIT RAY
• THE GUIDE: R .K NARAYAN
• MALGUDI DAYS: R.K NARAYAN
• PICKWICK PAPERS: CHARLES DICKENS
• LITTLE WOMEN : LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
• TREASURE ISLAND: R.L STEVENSON
• ROBINSON CRUSOE: DANIEL DEFOE
• ANIMAL FARM : GEORGE ORWELL
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Indian writer and journalist (born 1946)

Arup Kumar Datta is an Indian writer and Journalist from Guwahati, Assam. He has written 18 books for adults and 17 adventure novels for young people . In 2014 he was awarded the Life Time Achievement Honour by Association of Writers and illustrators for Children, New Delhi, the Indian chapter of the International Board of Books for Young People. He has also won numerous awards including the Shankar's Award in 1979, conferred to mark The International Year of the Child. He has been awarded the civilian award Padma Shri by Government of India in 2018.

Personal life

Arup Kumar Datta was born on 2 July 1946 to Girish and Indira Dutta. He spent his early life in Jorhat, in the tea-growing Indian state of Assam. At the age of 8, he was admitted to The Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh, from where he passed his Senior Cambridge Examination in 1962. After school, Dutta joined Ramjas College under the University of Delhi from where he completed his bachelor of arts in English Literature in 1966. He went on to finish his post-graduation in English Literature from the University of Delhi in 1969. Dutta then returned to Assam to teach English at Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat. Along with teaching, he also started his journalistic career writing freelance satirical columns and short stories for numerous Indian magazines and newspapers. In the course of a few years, he established himself as a journalist of repute at the national level. His writings featured in journals such as The Illustrated Weekly of India, The Caravan, Femina, JS, Eve's Weekly etc. He was a prominent writer in the famous Indian satirical magazine, Shankar's Weekly.

Works

Books for adults

Dutta has so far authored 18 books for adults, 13 of which are non-fiction while three are fiction. His non-fiction books are based on a diverse range of subject