Anoop Sasikumar

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.

Anoop Sasikumar
Born	(1984-02-23) 23 February 1984 (age 41) Kottayam, Kerala, India
Alma mater	Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology Mahatma Gandhi University Hyderabad Central University
Occupations	Economist Novelist
Years active	Since 2006

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

• Anoop Sasikumar (2019). Ettamathe Velipadu. DC Books. p. 138. ISBN 9789352824892.
• Sasikumar, Anoop (2019). The Keeper Chronicles: Prelude. Kindle. ASIN B01N9XG5SW.
• Anoop Sasikumar (2020). Gotham. Logos Books. p. 124. ISBN 9788194362890.
• Anoop Sasikumar (2020). Onpatham Veedu. Mathrubhumi Books. p. 136. ISBN 9789390234783.

Book chapters

• Somnath Mazumdar, Alberto Scionti, Anoop S. Kumar (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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Anoop S Kumar, P Yazir (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.
• Somnath Mazumdar, Anoop S Kumar (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.

Selected articles

• Anoop S Kumar (2017). "Long Memory Volatility in Asian Stock Markets". Pacific Accounting Review. 29 (6): 423–442. doi:10.1108/PAR-02-2016-0009.
• Anoop S Kumar, Yazir P, Gopika Gg (2018). "Consumption Inequality in India after Liberalization: A Caste Based Assessment". The Singapore Economic Review. 64: 139–155. doi:10.1142/S0217590817430123. S2CID 158113898.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Anoop S Kumar, Chaithanya Jayakumar, Bandi Kamaiah (2017). "Fractal market hypothesis: evidence for nine Asian forex markets". Indian Economic Review. 52 (1–2): 181–192. doi:10.1007/s41775-017-0014-7. S2CID 158739418.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Taufeeq Ajaz, Anoop S Kumar (2018). "Herding in crypto-currency markets". Annals of Financial Economics. 13 (2). World Scientific Publishing Company.
• Anoop S Kumar, Suvvari Anandarao (2019). "Volatility spillover in crypto-currency markets: Some evidences from GARCH and wavelet analysis". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 524: 448–458. Bibcode:2019PhyA..524..448K. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.04.154. S2CID 150109812.
• Anoop S Kumar, Taufeeq Ajaz (2019). "Co-movement in crypto-currency markets: evidences from wavelet analysis". Financial Innovation. 5 (1): 1–17.
• Muhammad Meo, Solomon Nathaniel, Ghulam Shaikh, Anoop Kumar (2021). "Energy consumption, institutional quality and tourist arrival in Pakistan: Is the nexus (a) symmetric amidst structural breaks?". Journal of Public Affairs. 21 (2): e2213. doi:10.1002/pa.2213. S2CID 225626524.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

See also

• Cloud computing
• Statistical computing
• List of Malayalam-language authors by category
• List of Malayalam-language authors

• India portal
• Literature portal

Notes

1. Please see Bibliography section