Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (11 January 1898 – 2 September 1976) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.

His father was a munsif (a subordinate official) in Sangli principality where he spent his childhood and completed his early education.

[5] In 1920, Khandekar started working as a school teacher in a small town, Shiroda, in the present-day Sindhudurg district of the Konkan region in Maharashtra.

While working as a teacher, Khandekar produced in his spare time abundant Marathi literature in various forms.

He frequented a hillock located overseeing the sea where he wrote many of his literary works, this place later came to be known by locals as "Khandekaranchi Khurchi" (Chair of Khandekar).