Anoop Sasikumar
Born (1984-02-23) 23 February 1984 (age 39)
Kottayam, Kerala, India
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Economist
  • Novelist
Years activeSince 2006

Anoop Sasikumar is an Indian economist and a novelist of Malayalam literature. He is the author of several articles on economics and his first novel, Ettamathe Velipadu, regarded by many as the first urban fantasy novel in Malayalam, was among the novels shortlisted for DC Books Literary Award in 2018.

Biography

Born on 23 February 1984 in Kottayam district in the south Indian state of Kerala, Anoop Sasikumar graduated in mechanical engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam of Mahatma Gandhi University.[1] He started his career as an engineer at Shapoorji Pallonji Group in 2006.[1] After a year, he moved to Consolidated Contractors International Company as a quality engineer. In 2009, he quit his job and moved to Hyderabad Central University (HCU) from where he earned his master's degree in economics.[2] He continued at HCU to secure an MPhil and PhD[3] in Economics . In 2015, he joined Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Goa Campus as an assistant professor and he worked there until 2017.[4]

Sasikumar is known to have done research in the field of economics and has published a number of articles,[5][6][note 1] ResearchGate, an online repository of research articles, has listed 30 of them.[7] He has also contributed chapters to books published by others.[8][9][10] His first novel, Ettamathe Velipadu (The Eighth Revelation),[11] shortlisted for the 2018 DC Books Literary Award, was published in 2019;[12][13][14] it is considered by many to be the first urban fantasy novel in Malayalam.[15][16] His second novel, Gotham, was published by Logos Books in 2020.[17][18]

Sasikumar lives in Kottayam, Kerala.[citation needed]

Bibliography

Novels and novellas

Book chapters

Selected articles

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Please see Bibliography section

References

  1. ^ a b "Faculty profile, BITS Pilani" (PDF). BITS Pilani. 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Selected Works of Anoop Sasikumar". Article listing. Selected Works. 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Profile on GoodReads". GoodReads. 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  4. ^ About the author. DC Books. 2019.
  5. ^ "Anoop S kumar on Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Anoop Sasikumar on Academia". Academia. 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Anoop S Kumar BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa · Department of Economics". 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  8. ^ Utpal Kumar De, Manoranjan Pal, Premananda Bharati (2017). "An Inquiry into the Dynamics of Inequality from the Perspective of Caste". Inequality, Poverty and Development in India: Focus on the North Eastern Region. Springer. ISBN 978-981-10-6273-5.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Nick Antonopoulos, Lee Gillam (2017). "Adaptive Resource Allocation for Load Balancing in Cloud". Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications. Springer. pp. 301–327. ISBN 978-3-319-54644-5.
  10. ^ Mandal, J.K., Saha, G., Kandar, D., Maji, A.K (2018). "Statistical Analysis of a Data Centre Resource Usage Patterns: A Case Study". Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems. Springer. ISBN 978-981-10-6890-4.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "ഭയത്തിന്റെ ബീജഗണിതം". www.marunadanmalayalee.com. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  12. ^ Anoop Sasikumar (2019). Ettamathe Velipadu. DC Books. p. 138. ISBN 9789352824892.
  13. ^ "KLF -PROGRAMS SCHEDULE -2019 (MALAYALAM)". Kerala Literature Festival 2019. 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  14. ^ "Plotting a New Mystery". www.pallikkutam.com. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  15. ^ "എട്ടാമത്തെ വെളിപാട് - Ettamathe Velipadu". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  16. ^ www.dcbooks.com (6 February 2019). "ETTAMATHE BOOK - DC Books". Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  17. ^ "ദുരിതാശ്വാസ നിധിയിലേക്ക് സംഭാവന നല്‍കൂ; അനൂപിന്റെ നോവലിലെ 'കഥാപാത്രമാകാം'". Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 13 July 2020.

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