Aroon Tikekar or Aruṇa Ṭikekara (1 February 1944 – 19 January 2016) was an Indian scholar and authority[clarification needed] on Mumbai, as well as a journalist.

He worked as a college teacher for some years, then became the Language and Literature Expert and Acquisitions Specialist at the US Library of Congress Office in New Delhi.

[5] In June 2010, as President of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Tikekar inaugurated the Observer Research Foundation's Maharashtra@50 Study Centre.

Tikekar has been active in campaigning for funds to restore books that are suffering from the damaging effects of heat, humidity and insects.

[7] In October 2010 he lashed out against the University of Mumbai's decision to drop Rohinton Mistry's controversial book Such a Long Journey from its syllabus.