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.

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]}

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• "ഫിക്‌ഷൻ എഴുതുന്നത് മോറൽ ക്ലാസ് എടുക്കാനോ അറിവുകൾ പകരാനോ അല്ല: അനൂപ് ശശികുമാർ". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 19 July 2021.
• "എണ്ണിത്തിട്ടപ്പെടുത്തിയ ദു:ഖങ്ങളുടെ കണക്കുപുസ്തകം". Indian Express Malayalam (in Malayalam). 19 June 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
• "കടലിലെ നക്ഷത്രങ്ങളും ആകാശത്തിലെ മീനുകളും". Indian Express Malayalam (in Malayalam). 11 February 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
• "പകര്‍പ്പവകാശവും പകർപ്പവകാശ ലംഘനവും: അറിയേണ്ട കാര്യങ്ങൾ". Indian Express Malayalam (in Malayalam). 9 February 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
• "മിത്താണോ യഥാർഥ്യമാണോ ഗോലം?; കൊച്ചിയുമായുള്ള ബന്ധമെന്താണ്?". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 13 July 2020.

• "Anoop KUMAR - ResearchGate". ResearchGate. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
• "Anoop Sasikumar - University of Hyderabad - Academia.edu". uohyd.academia.edu. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
• Anoop Sasikumar (2011). "n Analysis of Presence of Long Memory In The Indian Foreign Exchange Market". Article. GITAM review of International Business. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
• Anoop Sasikumar (2011). "Testing for Weak Form Market Efficiency in Indian Foreign Exchange Market". Article. The IUP Journal of Monetary Economics. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
• "Anoop Sasikumar, Author at Indian Express Malayalam" (in Malayalam). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
• "പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ പിഡിഎഫ് ഉണ്ടോ എഴുത്തുകാരേ?". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 24 January 2021.