Career
He has published two volumes of poems in English--Anhadnad, a collection of his childhood poems in 2000, and Shadows Don"t Live in Walls in 2004. 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, an influential literary magazine brought out by Gyanaranjan from Jabalpur, Vartaman Sahitya (Ghaziabad), and Sahitya Akademi"s Samakaleen Bharatiya Sahitya besides other publications.
Samartha is also a co-translator (along with Shailendra Shail) of Soumitra Mohan"s long Hindi poem, Luqman Ali into English. The translation was published in Chandrabhaga 14/2007.
