Given a sentence in German, provide an equivalent paraphrased translation in English that retains the same meaning both through the translation and the paraphrase.
Q: Malhar Joshi sollte nicht mit dem Autor Waman Gopal Joshi verwechselt werden, sie waren Zeitgenossen.
A: 
Vaman Malhar Joshi should not be confused with the writer Waman Gopal Joshi . They were contemporaries .