Ratilal Mohanlal Borisagar (born 31 August 1938) is a Gujarati humourist, essayist and editor from Gujarat, India.

[1][2][3] In 1989, Borisagar received a PhD for his thesis Gujaratima Sahityik Sampadan: Vivechanatmak Adhyayan (Literary Editing in Gujarati: A Critical Study).

In 1974 he left professorship and joined Gujarat State School Textbook Board as the Academic Secretary.

[1][2] He co-edited the Akhand Anand magazine for seven years and was a committee member of the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha.

He served as a Managing Secretary of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad from 2005 to 2009 and established Matrubhasha Samvardhan Kendra (Mother-tongue Development Centre) there.

[2] Borisagar started his career as a short story writer, however his humorous nature brought him into humour writing, where he received acclaim.

[1] He was directly influenced by his parents, his neighbour Dhanbai, and his high school teacher Mukundrai Pandya.

In 1994, Borisagar published his first humorous novel, Sambhavami Yuge Yuge, in which he represented the title character from the Gujarati classic novel Bhadrambhadra in contemporary milieu with light criticism of Sardar Sarovar Dam,[1][2] the world's second biggest dam in terms of volume of concrete used.

[4] His most acclaimed work is the autobiographical humorous novel Enjoygraphy (1997), which is a satire on his experience with heart disease and angiography, medical profession and hospital management.

He edited or co-edited Gurjar Prahasansanchay (with Raghuveer Chaudhari, 1998), Gurjar Adyatan Prahasansanchay (with Raghuveer Chaudhari, 1998), Gurjar Hasyanibandhsanchay (with Bholabhai Patel, 1998), Ma E Ma (1999), Anokha Jeevancharitro (1999), Namu Te Hasyabrahmane (2000), Pita Pappa Daddy (2002), Hasyatetrisi (with Vinod Bhatt, 2002), Bhavbhumi (with Bharati R. Dave and Raghuveer Chaudhari, 2002), Arvachin Gujarati Hasyarachanao (2003), Jyotindra Dave Hasyavaibhav (2004) and Na.