Ashok Vajpeyi is an Indian poet, essayist, and literary and cultural critic. He is the founder of Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal (1980), which includes a theater, an adivasi painting museum and modern and which welcomes artists and writers in residence. He has published numerous collections of poetry in Hindi and has created several literary journals in Hindi (Samvat, Pahcan, Kavita Asia, Samasa, Bahuvachan) and in English (Hindi: Languages Discourse Writing, Poorvagrah) which were among the most important revealers of new talent.