Esther David (born 17 March 1945) is an Indian Jewish author, an artist and a sculptor.
[4] Her father, Reuben David, was a hunter-turned-veterinarian, who founded the Kamala Nehru Zoological Garden and Balvatika near Kankaria lake in Ahmedabad.
She taught at the Sheth Chimanlal Nagindas Fine Arts College, CEPT University and NIFT.
Later she became a columnist for Femina, a women's magazine, the "Times of India" and other leading national dallies.
[4] The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) featured Shalom India Housing Society in the Hasassah-Brandeis 2010–2011 calendar, which highlights 12 Jewish women authors across the world whose "writing illuminates a particular city".