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Aakhet

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One of the best of Ashwini Bhatt's, it 1st appeared in the Gujarati weekly magazine, Abhiyaan.
Its really amazing novel, a must read, if you like to read novels.

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Ashwini Bhatt was born to educationist Harprasad Bhatt and Sharadaben Bhatt on 12 August 1936 in Ahmedabad. He graduated in psychology. He was interested in theatre and he worked as a child artist in Gujarati adoption of Bengali drama Bindur Chhele (Bindu No Kiko). He had failed in several business ventures like poultry farm to a vegetable vendor before starting career as a writer. He moved to United States in 2002. He died on 10 December 2012 at Dallas, Texas, US

He wrote twelve novels and three novellas. He translated several works in Gujarati including Alistair MacLean and James Hadley Chase. He also translated Freedom at Midnight by Collins and Lapierre in Gujarati as Ardhi Rate Azadi which was critically acclaimed.

His serialized novels include Othaar, Faanslo, Aashka Maandal, Katibandh, Nirja Bhargav, Lajja Sanyal, Aayno, Angaar, Jalkapat and Aakhet. Besides writing novels, he was also involved in theatre. His Katibandh was made into TV series.

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June 4, 2016
captivating and appealing. He is our very own Version of Dan Brown. All his topics and characters are very well researched.
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June 28, 2017
aswini bhatt is always my favourite author, in my student life I read lot of novel aswini bhattji some story nt memorise but I still remember the book title nw once agai I have chance to read my favourite author so I try to found on net lhope if lucky to read
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March 3, 2025
આખેટ... સર્વશ્રેષ્ઠ..
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August 22, 2016
good book
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July 8, 2020
This app is so bad i can not read any thing from it
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