Arunabha Sengupta

Arunabha Sengupta (born 1973) is an Indian novelist and sports writer. He has written four novels and one collection of short stories as well as a non-fiction volume on the social and cricketing history of apartheid South Africa. He is a cricket historian and a Cricket Writer at CricketCountry.com[1] and Scoreline.org[2]

Books


  • Apartheid: A Point to Cover CricketMASH May 2020 ISBN 978-9-4922-0303-8 [3]

- A history of South African cricket during the apartheid era 1948-1970 leading up to the Stop The Seventy Tour campaign. It has an introduction by Peter Hain

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of The Ashes Best Mysteries August 2015 ISBN 978-9-4922-0301-4 [4] [5]

- A Sherlock Holmes pastiche involving the legendary fictional detective in the backdrop of the epochal 1882 Test match at The Oval. This was shortlisted for the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award in 2016.[6] This was republished by Max Books in 2016 [7]

  • The Best Seller Createspace November 2010 ISBN 978-1-4538-0398-1

- A novel set in Amsterdam, dealing with, among others, the travels and travails of a struggling writer in the murky publishing world. ForeWord Reviews[8] rated the novel 5 stars.

  • Big Apple 2 Bites (Frog Books, Mumbai March 2007) ISBN 81-88811-98-X [9][10][11]

- a novel combining the worlds of Software, Love and Aikido and set against the backdrop of 9/11. (The author himself is a first dan black belt in Kobayashi Aikido.)

  • Bowled Over - Stories Between the Covers

Both Labyrinth and Bowled Over were listed in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature[12]

  • Labyrinth - a novel about the Software Industry (iUniverse, Inc. June 5, 2006) ISBN 0-595-39697-6 (First published by Writers Workshop India )

"True picture of the Indian workplace" - Book Review India, vol 30 No 7 July 6[13]

  • His writing also appears alongside luminaries like Khushwant Singh and Pritish Nandy in Lessons on Lessons - a collection of essays on the insights gained from the biographical work Lessons by P. Lal

References
  1. "Cricket Writer at CricketCountry". Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  2. "Cricket Writer at Scoreline.org". Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  3. Review of Apartheid: A Point to Cover on Cricketweb
  4. Review of Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of The Ashes on Cricketcountry
  5. Review of Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of The Ashes on CricketWeb
  6. Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year List
  7. Max Books Publication
  8. ForeWord Reviews
  9. The Tribune
  10. The Dawn
  11. Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2008 by Shyamala Narayan
  12. JCL 2005
  13. Book Review India Archived March 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine


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