Ashok Chopra (born 26 February 1949) is a publisher, author, editor, and literary columnist.

[2] Author of Memories of Fire: A Novel,[3] A Scrapbook of Memories: My Life with the Rich, the Famous and the Scandalous[4] and Of Love and Other Sorrows,[5] he has co-authored Agnostic Khushwant: There Is No God[6] with the Indian author-columnist Khushwant Singh and A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time[7] with Arjun Singh, which he completed after his death on March 4, 2011, in 2012.

Besides contributing articles and features regularly he also acted as the paper's film and theatre critic.

[13][14] In June 1975, he joined the Indian Express Limited as its Himachal Pradesh correspondent based in Shimla.

[16] Chopra also wrote book reviews, features and opinion pieces regularly for India Today.