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Anoop Sasikumar
Birth Date:1984 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Kottayam, Kerala, India
Yearsactive:Since 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. 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] 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.

Bibliography

Novels and novellas

Book chapters

Selected articles

See also

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Faculty profile, BITS Pilani . BITS Pilani . 2019 . 21 January 2019.
  2. Web site: Selected Works of Anoop Sasikumar . Selected Works . Article listing . 2019 . 21 January 2019.
  3. Web site: Profile on GoodReads . GoodReads . 2019 . 21 January 2019.
  4. Book: About the author . DC Books . 2019.
  5. Web site: Anoop S kumar on Google Scholar . Google Scholar . 2019 . 21 January 2019.
  6. Web site: Anoop Sasikumar on Academia . Academia . 2019 . 21 January 2019.
  7. Web site: Anoop S Kumar BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa · Department of Economics . 2019 . 21 January 2019.
  8. Book: Inequality, Poverty and Development in India: Focus on the North Eastern Region . Utpal Kumar De, Manoranjan Pal, Premananda Bharati . Anoop S Kumar, P Yazir . 2017 . 978-981-10-6273-5 . An Inquiry into the Dynamics of Inequality from the Perspective of Caste. Springer .
  9. Book: Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications . Nick Antonopoulos, Lee Gillam . Somnath Mazumdar, Alberto Scionti, Anoop S. Kumar . 2017 . 301–327 . 978-3-319-54644-5 . Adaptive Resource Allocation for Load Balancing in Cloud. Springer .
  10. Book: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems . Springer . Mandal, J.K., Saha, G., Kandar, D., Maji, A.K . Somnath Mazumdar, Anoop S Kumar . 2018 . 978-981-10-6890-4 . Statistical Analysis of a Data Centre Resource Usage Patterns: A Case Study.
  11. Web site: ഭയത്തിന്റെ ബീജഗണിതം . 2021-01-24 . www.marunadanmalayalee.com.
  12. Book: Ettamathe Velipadu . DC Books . Anoop Sasikumar . 2019 . 138 . 9789352824892.
  13. Web site: KLF -PROGRAMS SCHEDULE -2019 (MALAYALAM) . Kerala Literature Festival 2019 . 2019 . 21 January 2019.
  14. Web site: Plotting a New Mystery . 2020-07-13 . www.pallikkutam.com.
  15. Web site: എട്ടാമത്തെ വെളിപാട് - Ettamathe Velipadu . 2021-01-28 . www.goodreads.com.
  16. Web site: www.dcbooks.com . 2019-02-06 . ETTAMATHE BOOK - DC Books . 2021-01-27 . en-gb.
  17. News: Contribute to flood relief fund get your name featured on this writer's novel . en . 2020-07-13.
  18. Web site: ദുരിതാശ്വാസ നിധിയിലേക്ക് സംഭാവന നല്‍കൂ; അനൂപിന്റെ നോവലിലെ 'കഥാപാത്രമാകാം' . 2020-07-13 . Mathrubhumi . 15 August 2019 . en.