Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar ((Devanagari: कृष्णाजी प्रभाकर खाडिलकर) (1872 - 1948) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.
Khadilkar was born on November 25, 1872 in Sangli. At age 15, he wrote a novel, and the next year he wrote a play. He received his B.A. degree in 1892 from Deccan College in Pune. Out of his abiding interest in plays, he closely studied during his college years the plays of Sanskrit and English playwrights.
In 1897, Khadilkar joined the editorial staff of Lokmanya Tilak's daily Kesari (केसरी). His thoughts and writing style so much matched those of Tilak that the readers of Kesari never knew as to which of the two had written the editorials appearing in the newspaper. At one time, the British authorities ruling over India at that time charged Tilak with writing some “inflammatory” editorials criticizing them. Those editorials had in fact been written by Khadilkar.
During 1908-10, Khadilkar served as the chief editor of Tilak's English daily Maratha (मराठा) besides serving on the editorial board of Kesari. In 1910, he left the editorship of both Kesari and Maratha, but returned to work as the editor of Keasari during 1917-20.
After Tilak's death in 1920, Khadilkar worked as the editor of daily “Lokamanya” (लोकमान्य) during 1921-23. In 1923, he founded daily Nava Kal (नवा काळ). His editorials in Nava Kal strongly supported the freedom struggle of India under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, who had assumed the leadership after Tilak's death. In 1929, British authorities imprisoned Khadilkar for a year for the "crime" of disloyalty to the British Raj.
Khadilkar presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Nagpur in 1933.
He died on August 26, 1948.
The following is the list of Khadilkar's plays: