B S Anilkumar is a journalist with over two decades of demonstrated experience as news reporter, political analyst, newsroom manager and news coordinator of major events, including  quite a number of elections and state budgets. Not one who moved straight from class room to news room. Anil turned to journalism after spending half a dozen years in experimental theatre in Kerala, as actor, writer and coordinator, traveling across the state and outside and interacting with luminaries and contemporaries in the field. Translated two plays-The Royal Hunt of the Sun and The Lovers. He writes in all formats- short and long. Focuses mainly on politics, education and power sectors, besides finance, culture and theatre. Currently working as deputy metro editor The Times of India, Thiruvananthapuram bureau in Kerala.