Dr. Rajendrasinh Jadeja received his school education at Bhavnagar and higher education at the Sardar Patel University. He has also got an M.A. from Edinburgh, UK. He worked on ‘Teaching and Testing of Spoken English’ for his Ph.D. research, and has edited English textbooks for Gujarat Board and for the NCERT, New Delhi. He taught at, and later became the Director of H. M. Patel Institute of English Training and Research, at Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand (Gujarat).
Rajendrabhai has written poems and short stories in Gujarati. Some of his poems were published in the anthology “ Shalmalee ” and his translations from English into Gujarati in “ Navo Faal ” are published by the Oxford University Press, New Delhi. He is at present working on an English course book for the learners of Gandhian Studies.
Here are a few lines written by him:
મુક્તક
કરતા રહીશું ચર્ચા જમા ઉધારની,
કે ખોલશું સિલક પણ, ઉઘડતા દ્વારની?
ચિંતા કરીશું કેવળ અણનમ અંધારની,
કે મેળવીશું ઝાંખી સુંદર સવારની?