Saturday, March 25
10:00-11:30 p.m. (PDT)

Hosted by Anshu Johri!

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Rajesh Joshi was born in 1946 in Narsinghgarh, Madhya Pradesh. He is a Hindi writer, poet, journalist and a playwright, who was the recipient of 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his anthology of poems Do Panktiyon Ke Beech (Between Two Lines), given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. He presently resides in Bhopal and continues to work as a freelance writer. His poems have been translated into English, German, Russian, Urdu and into many other Indian languages. Recipient of Muktibodh Puraskar, Makhan Lal Chaturvedi Puraskar, Srikant Verma Smriti Samman, Shikhar Samman and others. He was a freelance writer for journals like Vatayan, Lahar, Pahal, Dharamyug, Saptahik Hindustan, Sarika and later went on to edit magazines like Naya Vikalp, Naya Path and Vartman Sahitya. Over the years he has authored twelve books including four collections of poetry: Ek Din Bolenge Ped, Do Panktiyon Ke Beech and others - with one long poem "Samargatha" and two short story collections Samwar Aur Anya Kahaniyan and Kapil ka Ped, four plays and one collection of children's rhymes Gend Nirali Mithoo Ki.