Rajesh Joshi

Rajesh Joshi at his home in Nirala Nagar, Bhopal, July 2017

Rajesh Joshi (born 18 July 1946)[1][2] 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.[3] He presently resides in Bhopal and continues to work as a freelance writer.[4] 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.