Kajol Aikat
Kajol Aikat is an Indian writer. He is the author of the novel Unsocial Amigos (2014), Reason to Live (2015), and is a contributor to the anthology The Unbreakable You (2015). His story has also been published on Ford India's official webite under What Drives You Campaign.
Early life and Career
Aikat was born in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand (then, Bihar), where he spent the first seventeen years of his life. He then moved to Ranchi to complete his education. He completed his schooling at DAV Public School, Hazaribagh, in 2011 and graduated in business management at the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra in 2014.
His first book Unsocial Amigos was published when he was 19 years old and studying B.B.A. Unsocial Amigos is a young adult romance fiction AbOUT live-in relationships. Then he wrote a short story called Life Isn't a Fairy tale which was published in the anthology The Unbreakable You by Write India Publishers in January 2015. It is about a bullied boy who suffers from epilepsy but eventually fights back to redeem himself. Reason to Live was published in October 2015, which is a romance fiction about a tormented and pessimistic author who falls in love to find his reason to live. Aikat was initially a CASUAL writer. But, when inspired by rise of authors like Chetan Bhagat, Amish etc. , he decided to take writing seriously. He idolizes Dan Brown, Khushwant Singh, Arundhati Roy and J. K. Rowling. When asked about writing, according to Aikat, one should focus on reading and writing better rather than focusing on getting published.
Works
Books
- Unsocial Amigos (2014)
- The Unbreakable You (2015)
- Reason to Live (2015)