Padmakar V. Khadikar was born on January 15, 1936 in Indore (MP), India, where he finished the ten-year high school (1953). His father Late Vinayak Mukund Khadikar was a Spinning Superintendent in Textile Mills and his mother Late Mrs. Anusuya Khadikar was a housewife. He married with Kusum, the then Education Officer, and has two daughters Leena and Sneha.