Rajendra Shukla

Rajendra Anantrai Shukla (born 12 October 1942) is a Gujarati poet. He taught at various places before voluntarily retiring. He published several poetry collections which won him several major Gujarati literary awards.

Early life and education

at Vallabh Vidyanagar, 1992 He was born on 12 October 1942 in Bantwa village near Junagadh, Gujarat, India. His family is native of Wadhwan. He completed his primary education from Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Bantwa and Majevadi. He completed his secondary education from Junagadh and Ahmedabad. He started his college education from Bahauddin College, Junagadh. He completed B.A. in 1965 in Sanskrit and Prakrit from L. D. Arts College, Ahmedabad and M.A. in the same subjects in 1967 from School of Languages, Gujarat University. He taught at various institutions until 1982.

Works

He studied poetry from Takhtasinhji Parmar along with Manoj Khanderia and Shyam Sadhu.

He is influenced by the poetry of Narasinh Mehta, a saint-poet of medieval Gujarat as well as modernist poetry of Re Math poets.

Personal life Shukla is married to Nayana Jani, a Gujarati poet. After teaching Sanskrit at Dahod, he left teaching voluntarily in 1982 to educate his children without schooling as an experiment. He resides in Ahmedabad.