Kundanika Kapadia (11 January 1927 – 30 April 2020) was an Indian novelist, story writer and essayist from Gujarat.

In 1948, she completed a BA in history and politics from Samaldas College, Bhavnagar, affiliated with University of Bombay.

[2][3][4][5] She died on April 30, 2020 at Nandigram near Vankal village in Valsad district, Gujarat, India, at the age of 93.

She wrote Saat Pagala Aakashma (Seven Steps in the Sky, 1984), which won her critical acclaim and is considered[by whom?]

She was influenced by Dhumketu, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, Shakespeare and Ibsen.

She translated Mary Ellen Chase's A Goodly Fellowship as Dilbhar Maitri (1963) and the Bengali writer Rani Chand's travelogue as Purnakumbh (1977).

Her other works of translation are Purusharthne Pagale (1961), Florence Scovel Shinn's The Game of Life and How to Play It as Jeevan Ek Khel (1981), Eileen Caddy's Opening the Door Within as Ughadata Dwar Anantna and Swami Rama's Living with the Himalayan Masters as Himalayana Siddha Yogi (1984).