Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947[1]) is an Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator.

His Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992) has been very influential.

A second book of essays, Translating the Indian Past (Permanent Black), appeared in 2019.

[2] He came second behind Ruth Padel, who later resigned over allegations of a smear campaign against Trinidadian poet Derek Walcott (who had himself earlier withdrawn from the election process).

[3][4] Mehrotra has translated more than 200 literary works from ancient Prakrit language, and from Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati.