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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Poet_Rajesh_Joshi.jpg/220px-Poet_Rajesh_Joshi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Poet_Rajesh_Joshi.jpg/330px-Poet_Rajesh_Joshi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Poet_Rajesh_Joshi.jpg/440px-Poet_Rajesh_Joshi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4128" data-file-height="3096" /></a><figcaption>Rajesh Joshi at his home in Nirala Nagar, <a href="/wiki/Bhopal" title="Bhopal">Bhopal</a>, July 2017</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Rajesh Joshi</b> (born 18 July 1946)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a> writer, poet, journalist and a playwright, who was the recipient of 2002 <a href="/wiki/Sahitya_Akademi_Award" title="Sahitya Akademi Award">Sahitya Akademi Award</a> in Hindi for his anthology of poems - 'Do Panktiyon Ke Beech' (Between Two Lines), given by <a href="/wiki/Sahitya_Akademi" title="Sahitya Akademi">Sahitya Akademi</a>, India's National Academy of Letters.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He presently resides in <a href="/wiki/Bhopal" title="Bhopal">Bhopal</a> and continues to work as a freelance writer.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajesh_Joshi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rajesh Joshi was born in 1946 in <a href="/wiki/Narsinghgarh,_Rajgarh" title="Narsinghgarh, Rajgarh">Narsinghgarh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> and graduated in 1966 with Biology, and thereafter took up a job as a school teacher in <a href="/wiki/Ujjain" title="Ujjain">Ujjain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indore" title="Indore">Indore</a>, he also served as a bank clerk for a while,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before leaving the profession in 1972, and starting his literary career as a freelance writer for journals like "Vatayan", "Lahar", "Pahal", "<a href="/wiki/Dharamyug" class="mw-redirect" title="Dharamyug">Dharamyug</a>", "Saptahik Hindustan", "Sarika", etc. 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".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajesh_Joshi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Nagarjuna Rachna Sanchayan</i> (Hindi): An anthology of selected writings of Nagarjuna in Hindi, Compiled and edited by Rajesh Joshi, 2005, <a href="/wiki/Sahitya_Akademi" 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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.centralchronicle.com/20070814/1408033.htm">First pay spent on repaying loan</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged April 2018">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> www.centralchronicle.com.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030801045209/http://hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/02/27/stories/2003022700020300.htm">Penning songs of true freedom</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/The_Hindu" title="The Hindu">The Hindu</a>, 27 February 2003.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/bklst29.htm">Sahitya Akademi booklist 2005</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080415125641/http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/bklst29.htm">Archived</a> 2008-04-15 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajesh_Joshi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span 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navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Makhanlal_Chaturvedi" title="Makhanlal Chaturvedi">Makhanlal Chaturvedi</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1955)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasudev_Sharan_Agarwal" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasudev Sharan Agarwal">Vasudeva Saran Agrawal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1956)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acharya_Narendra_Dev" class="mw-redirect" title="Acharya Narendra Dev">Acharya Narendra Dev</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1957)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rahul_Sankrityayan" title="Rahul Sankrityayan">Rahul Sankrityayan</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1958)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramdhari_Singh_%27Dinkar%27" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'">Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1959)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1960–1979</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sumitranandan_Pant" title="Sumitranandan Pant">Sumitranandan Pant</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1960)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhagwati_Charan_Verma" title="Bhagwati Charan Verma">Bhagwati Charan Verma</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1961)</span></li> <li><i>Not awarded</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1962)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amrit_Rai" title="Amrit Rai">Amrit Rai</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1963)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sachchidananda_Hirananda_Vatsyayan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan">S. H. V. Agyeya</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1964)</span></li> <li>Nagendra <span style="font-size:85%;">(1965)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jainendra_Kumar" title="Jainendra Kumar">Jainendra Kumar</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1966)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amritlal_Nagar" title="Amritlal Nagar">Amritlal Nagar</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1967)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harivansh_Rai_Bachchan" title="Harivansh Rai Bachchan">Harivansh Rai Bachchan</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1968)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrilal_Shukla" title="Shrilal Shukla">Shrilal Shukla</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1969)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Vilas_Sharma" title="Ram Vilas Sharma">Ram Vilas Sharma</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1970)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Namvar_Singh" title="Namvar Singh">Namvar Singh</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1971)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhawani_Prasad_Mishra" title="Bhawani Prasad Mishra">Bhawani Prasad Mishra</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1972)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazari_Prasad_Dwivedi" title="Hazari Prasad Dwivedi">Hazari Prasad Dwivedi</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1973)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivmangal_Singh_Suman" title="Shivmangal Singh Suman">Shivmangal Singh Suman</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1974)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhisham_Sahni" title="Bhisham Sahni">Bhisham Sahni</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1975)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yashpal" title="Yashpal">Yashpal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1976)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamsher_Bahadur_Singh" title="Shamsher Bahadur Singh">Shamsher Bahadur Singh</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1977)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharat_Bhushan_Agarwal" title="Bharat Bhushan Agarwal">Bharat Bhushan Agarwal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1978)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudama_Panday_%27Dhoomil%27" title="Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil'">Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil'</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1979)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980–1999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Krishna_Sobti" title="Krishna Sobti">Krishna Sobti</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1980)</span></li> <li>Trilochan <span style="font-size:85%;">(1981)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harishankar_Parsai" title="Harishankar Parsai">Harishankar Parsai</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1982)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarveshwar_Dayal_Saxena" title="Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena">Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1983)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghuvir_Sahay" title="Raghuvir Sahay">Raghuvir Sahay</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1984)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nirmal_Verma" title="Nirmal Verma">Nirmal Verma</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1985)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kedarnath_Agarwal" title="Kedarnath Agarwal">Kedarnath Agarwal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1986)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrikant_Verma" title="Shrikant Verma">Shrikant Verma</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1987)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naresh_Mehta" title="Naresh Mehta">Naresh Mehta</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1988)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kedarnath_Singh" title="Kedarnath Singh">Kedarnath Singh</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1989)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiv_Prasaad_Singh" title="Shiv Prasaad Singh">Shiv Prasad Singh</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1990)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girija_Kumar_Mathur" title="Girija Kumar Mathur">Girija Kumar Mathur</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1991)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giriraj_Kishore" title="Giriraj Kishore">Giriraj Kishore</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1992)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishnu_Prabhakar" title="Vishnu Prabhakar">Vishnu Prabhakar</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1993)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Vajpeyi" title="Ashok Vajpeyi">Ashok Vajpeyi</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1994)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunwar_Narayan" title="Kunwar Narayan">Kunwar Narayan</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1995)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surendra_Verma" title="Surendra Verma">Surendra Verma</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1996)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leeladhar_Jagudi" title="Leeladhar Jagudi">Leeladhar Jagudi</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1997)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arun_Kamal" title="Arun Kamal">Arun Kamal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1998)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinod_Kumar_Shukla" title="Vinod Kumar Shukla">Vinod Kumar Shukla</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1999)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000–2019present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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title="Amarkant">Amarkant</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2007)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govind_Mishra" title="Govind Mishra">Govind Mishra</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2008)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kailash_Vajpeyi" title="Kailash Vajpeyi">Kailash Vajpeyi</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2009)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uday_Prakash" title="Uday Prakash">Uday Prakash</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2010)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kashinath_Singh" title="Kashinath Singh">Kashinath Singh</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2011)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrakant_Devtale" title="Chandrakant Devtale">Chandrakant Devtale</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2012)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mridula_Garg" title="Mridula Garg">Mridula Garg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2013)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Chandra_Shah" title="Ramesh Chandra Shah">Ramesh Chandra Shah</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2014)</span></li> <li><a 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