"Anand Neelakantan an Indian novelist, columnist, screenwriter, and public speaker. He has authored 14 books in English and one in Malayalam. His debut work Asura: Tale of the Vanquished (2012) was followed by a series of books based on characters from Mahabharata and Baahubali. His books have been translated to different languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, English, Sinhalese, Burmese, and Indonesian. Three of his books have been shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award. Anand has dabbled in acting in Television shows and advertisements and is now working on a film with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. "