Ila Arab Mehta (born 16 June 1938) is a Gujarati novelist and story writer from Gujarat, India.

[1][2][3][4] In her early days, Mehta wrote in Akhand Anand, Navneet and Stree Jeevan magazines.

She has written several novels including Trikonni Tran Rekhao (1966), Thijelo Akar (1970), Radha (1972), Ek Hata Diwan Bahadur (1976), Batris Laksho (1976), Varasdar (1978), Avati Kalno Sooraj (1979), Batris Putalini Vedana (1982), Ane Mrityu (1982), Dariyano Manas (1985), Vasant Chhlake (1987), Nag Pariksha, Panch Pagala Prithvi Par (1995), The New Life (2004), Parpotani Aankh (1988), Zili Me Kumpal Hathelima (2007).

[5] Her novel Batris Putlini Vedna is a story of women's struggle against injustice done to them and their attempt to establish their own identity.

It centred around Anuradha, a main protagonist of the novel, and presents her anger against male chauvinism in the same way as Kundanika Kapadia's Saat Paglan Akashman (Seven Steps in the Sky; 1994).