Shakuntala Bhupendra Karandikar (née Agashe; IAST: Śakuntalā Bhūpendra Karandīkara, née Āgāśe;[a] 20 July 1931 – 1 June 2018) was an Indian biographer and philanthropist, best remembered for writing the Marathi biography of her father Chandrashekhar Agashe titled Vishwasta (1992), and her advocacy and philanthropy towards women's causes in Dahanu.
[8] Some of Karandikar's other prominent relations include Bapu Gokhale, a Third Anglo-Maratha War general under Peshwa Baji Rao II of the Maratha Empire,[5] musician Ashutosh Phatak,[9] historian Dinkar G. Kelkar, and scientist P. K.
[12] In June 1992, Karandikar and her siblings considered commissioning a biography on their father Chandrashekhar Agashe and his company the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate.
[14] In April 2002, she contributed an essay for her brother Dnyaneshwar's festschrift published on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.
[18] By August that same year, her authored biography was subsequently assigned as a research guide for the South Asian studies department at the University of British Columbia.