1. Anand Neelakantan is an Indian novelist, columnist, screenwriter, and public speaker.
15 Facts About Anand Neelakantan
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Anand Neelakantan has been writing a column in The New Indian Express since 2017.
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Anand Neelakantan follows the style of telling stories based on the perspective of the antagonists or supporting characters.
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Anand Neelakantan's books have been translated to different languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, English, Sinhalese, Burmese, Japense and Indonesian.
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Anand Neelakantan has written the story for the OTT series TAJ on Zee5.
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Anand Neelakantan has acted in three advertisement films and has played the role of Ettappa Naicker in the TV show Swaraj on Doordarshan.
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Anand Neelakantan's Asura was featured in the list of "100 books by Indian authors to read in a lifetime" by Amazon Books editors.
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Anand Neelakantan was listed as one among the "100 top celebrities in India" in 2015 and in 2017 by Forbes India.
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Anand Neelakantan writes a column for The New Indian Express on current affairs and his fortnightly column is called Acute Angle and Travel column for Outlook Traveller known as compass.
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Anand Neelakantan was born in Thripoonithura, a town on the outskirts of Kochi in Kerala.
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Anand Neelakantan is an alumnus of Government Engineering College, Trichur in Kerala.
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Anand Neelakantan worked for Indian Oil Corporation from 1999 to 2022, before leaving the corporation for a full-time career in writing.
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Anand Neelakantan is married to Aparna Anand and they have two children, Ananya Anand and Abhinav Anand.
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Anand Neelakantan wrote the official prequel series of novels for the Baahubali film series.
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Anand Neelakantan's fifth book Vanara, the legend of Baali, Sugreeva and Tara is published by Penguin Random House and is a best seller.