Kajol Aikat

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Kajol Aikat
Born25 August 1994 (1994-08-25) (age 26)
Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India
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Nationality Indian
Citizenship India
Education Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Department of Business Management, Alumnus of 2015)
Notable worksAuthor of "Unsocial Amigos", "Reason to Live", "The Unbreakable You"
Years active2014 - Present

Kajol Aikat is an Indian author. [1] He is the author of two bestselling Indian English novels, Unsocial Amigos (2014) [2] and Reason to Live (2015), a contributor to the anthology The Unbreakable You (2015), [3] and writer of three short stories, The Cotton Seed (2017), [4] [5] [6] Soul Break Part 01 of 02 (2017), [7] and Soul Break Part 02 of 02 (2018). His story has been published on Ford India's official website under the What Drives You Campaign. [8] In 2020, Aikat published a voluntary research work on the development of the LGBTQIA+ community, accredited by UNFPA.

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Career

Aikat was born in Hazaribagh, did his schooling at DAV Public School, Hazaribagh and then moved to Ranchi in 2011 to complete his higher education from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. [9] Aikat's first novel Unsocial Amigos was published when he was 19 years old, in 2014. Unsocial Amigos was a young-adult romance fiction on live-in relationships. It became a bestseller on Amazon in December 2014 and was nominated for Goodreads Choice Book of the Year 2014 in the category of Books having Rape as a Theme. Aikat has also received the ND Grover Young Achiever's Award in the field of literature in 2014 for Unsocial Amigos. [10] [11]

Aikat's second work was a short story called Life Isn't a Fairytale which was published in the anthology The Unbreakable You by Write India Publishers in January 2015. It was centralized on the themes of social stigma for neural patients and teenage bullying.

Reason to Live was Aikat's second novel. Reason to Live was a romance fiction on the theme of apathy. It was published worldwide in October 2015 and became the #01 TASS bestseller in November 2015. [12] [13]

Aikat's second short story The Cotton Seed was published in January 2017. It was a fictional period drama on women empowerment, set in the 17th century Bihar. [14]

Aikat's third short story was Soul Break Part 01. It was the first installment of Soul Break Duology and a crime fiction short story about how its protagonist Kush Raman, an established business man, ends up turning into a rouge vigilante after his wife's murder.

The final installment of Soul Break Duology, Soul Break Part 02, was published in September 2018. Soul Break Part 02 sold more than 50,000 copies within eight hours of its release and became a national bestseller on Amazon India in September 2018. [15] [16]

In 2018, Aikat announced an interim break from mainstream novel writing. In 2020, Aikat published his voluntary research work on 'Sustainable Socio-economic Development for LGBTQIA+ community in India' which was recognized by the United Nations Population Fund. [17] [18]

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