Sitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta, also known as Sitanshu Yashaschandra (born 1941), is Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic from India.He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, writer in 1987 for his poetry collection Jatayu. Subsequently, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award by Government of India, in 2006.