Sitharaam Jayakumar graduated from IITBHU, Varanasi as a Metallurgical Engineer in the year 1988. After graduation, he embarked on a career in Information Technology from which he retired in 2019. He has written three novellas earlier. These are titled Eighty Hours to Save Karen, The Krishnapur Kidnappings and The Simian Curse. He is also a published poet. The Himadripuram Adventure is his first full-length novel. He lives in Kochi with his wife and daughter.