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'''Samartha Vashishtha''' (born 1983) is an Indian poet writing in English and Hindi, his mothertongue. He has published two volumes of poems in English — ''Anhadnad'', a collection of his childhood poems in the year 2000, and ''Shadows Don't Live in Walls'' in 2004. <br />
.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deshbandhu.co.in/news/new-delhi--on-the-seventh-day-of-the-world-book-fair-rajkamal-publishing-group--26290-1|title=Press announcement}}</ref> He won a ''Poetry Chain-Poetry Society (India) Annual Poetry Prize'' in 2003 for his poem-sequence, ''Simla''.<br />
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Samartha has also contributed to prominent Indian literary journals. His work in English has appeared in ''Chandrabhaga'' edited by [[Jayanta Mahapatra]], [[Sahitya Akademi]]'s ''Indian Literature'', ''The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics'', ''The Journal of the Poetry Society (India)'' and ''[[Poetry Chain]]''. His poems in Hindi have appeared in [[Pahal (magazine)|Pahal]], an influential literary magazine brought out by Gyanaranjan from [[Jabalpur]], Naya Gyanodaya, Vartaman Sahitya (Ghaziabad), and Sahitya Akademi's Samakaleen Bharatiya Sahitya besides several other publications.<br />
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==Works==<br />
He wrote two volumes of poetry. But it was in English. The first one is called ''Anhadnad,'' and it is about looking back about childhood, publiched in 2000. The next poem collection was called ''Shadows Dont Live IN Walls'' which was released in 2004.<br />
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==Translation==<br />
Samartha is a co-translator (along with Shailendra Shail) of [[Soumitra Mohan]]'s long Hindi poem, ''Luqman Ali'' (लुक़मान अली) into English. The translation was published in ''Chandrabhaga 14/2007'' and then in ''Asymptote''. ''Luqman Ali'' is widely considered a landmark poem in Hindi literature, and Samartha's co-translation of it made it accessible to a new generation of readers. In the foreword to his volume of collected poems, ''आधा दिखता वह आदमी'', Soumitra Mohan acknowledges the role of this translation in introducing ''Luqman Ali'' to an international readership.<br />
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Samartha has also translated the poetry of [[Langston Hughes]] into Hindi, and the works of [[Paash]], [[Vyomesh Shukla]] and [[Asad Zaidi]] into English. He continues to work across three languages — English, Hindi and Punjabi — consistently striving to build bridges between their literatures.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Samartha was born in 1983 into a literary family. His grandfather, Prof. Khushi Ram Vashishtha, was a poet of repute in the Indian state of Haryana. In 1968, Prof. Vashishtha was bestowed with the honorary title of Rajya Kavi (State Poet of Haryana); the first of the only two poets to ever earn this honor. Samartha's father, Dr Jitendra Vashishtha, a renowned poet himself, published three volumes of poems in his lifetime, and left behind several unpublished manuscripts in the wake of his untimely death. Shailendra Shail, noted Hindi poet and memoirist, is Samartha's paternal uncle.<br />
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Samartha lives in Noida, India. For over a decade, he worked with [[Adobe Systems]], where he led the user-assistance content activities for Photoshop, earning the informal title of "Chief Content Wrangler" on the credits splash screen for the 19.x releases.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/samarthav/detail/treasury/position:780085580/?entityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_treasuryMedia%3A(ACoAAAD2EHoBEKjweHiEZYtK5lOQmWzSVCNin0Q%2C1515553051681)&section=position%3A780085580&treasuryCount=3|title=Photoshop splash screen}}</ref> After a stint with [[Expedia Group]] in Gurgaon, where he led the UX Content Strategy function, he is now a Content Design Manager at [[Atlassian]] Bengaluru.<br />
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He is married to Ashu Vashishtha. They have a daughter.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
#[http://contentdesign.in Professional website and portfolio]<br />
#[http://www.geocities.ws/samarthavashishtha/anthology.html An online anthology of his poems in English]<br />
#[http://www.geocities.ws/samarthavashishtha/simla.htm Simla, a long poem]<br />
#[http://asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Poetry&id=79&curr_index=4 Translation of] [[Soumitra Mohan]]'s' Luqman Ali' in ''Asymptote''<br />
#[https://greysparrowpress.sharepoint.com/Pages/Spring2013PoetryVashishtha.aspx 'Gravity' in Grey Sparrow Press Journal]<br />
#[https://greysparrowpress.sharepoint.com/Pages/Spring2013PoetryVashishtha.aspx 'A Poem for Naipaul' in Grey Sparrow Press Journal]<br />
#[https://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/vyomesh-shukla-what-i-wanted-to-write/ Translation | 'What I Wanted to Write' in ''Asymptote'']<br />
#[http://www.samarthav.blogspot.com Poetry blog in Hindi]<br />
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