Arthinkal is a pseudonym for Jordan John Anthony, who is 26 years old and lives in Mumbai, India. After two years of working in Corporate Law, he decided to follow his passion for writing and became a content writer. He maintains a website and newsletter on which he posts articles on literature, music, art, history, philosophy, politics, law, and social issues.

Arthinkal aspires to become a full-time independent writer one day and continues to work towards that goal.

He began writing fiction five years ago. A Fisherman's Dream is his first novel, and it is the first book in The Aryan Series, a coming-of-age literary fiction series. He has written and published four other books on Amazon across two series.

The Barefoot Artist is the sequel to A Fisherman's Dream and the second book in The Aryan Series.

He has also written three novellas in the Life in Kornur Series, titled Untouchable Lives, Rumor Mill, and Changing Times. These novellas are in the contemporary literary and social fiction genres, and chronicle the daily lives of a few untouchable inhabitants in a small coastal village in India.

Some of his favorite writers include Rabindranath Tagore, R.K. Narayan, Albert Camus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chinua Achebe, John Steinbeck, and Leo Tolstoy. He is particularly fond of short meaningful novellas that have an idea or message to convey, such as Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, The Little Prince, Siddhartha, The Stranger, The Prophet, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Old Man and the Sea, Heart of Darkness, and several others.