Kishore Kalidas Jadav (15 April 1938 – 1 March 2018) was a novelist, critic, and short story writer from India.

from California International University for his research work American Black Writers.

He was awarded a Doctor of Letters by Harmony College of Applied Science, California, US.

Jadav died on 1 March 2018 in Dimapur following kidney failure and a stroke.

[4] Jadav experimented with fiction and adopted a surrealistic style of narration.

[5][6] His short stories were first published in Ruchi, a magazine edited by Gujarati author Chunilal Madia.

Jadav adopted an unconventional and opposing style to the traditional short stories written in Gujarati, focusing on the depiction of the inner world and character emotion rather than a realistic external world.

[2] Riktarag (1989) also depicts a protagonist in relationships with three ladies, but the world explores a more tragic dimension.