Shanti Kumari was a fictional character on the soap opera Shortland Street, and was played by Nisha Madhan. She worked as Charge Nurse at Shortland Street Hospital and oversighted Maia Jeffries's department when she took maternity leave. Shanti had been betrothed as a child to Dinesh Jivani since a child and the marriage was called off when she began dating nursing manager James Scott who she married in an extravagant four-day Gujarati ceremony. Shanti died on October 19th 2009 from Kidney failure which resulted from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. It is then revealed that she actually had dengue fever.