Dr Bhavani Ranganathan hails from a well-known family in Tamil Nadu. She did her schooling from Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay. She has very special and nostalgic memories of her years in Calcutta. Though she completed her schooling from Bombay's S.I.E.S. High School, it was during her time at Modern High School, Calcutta, that she began to develop a keen interest in various activities like reading, music, art, dancing, social service and dramatics. She gives credit to her Principal, Mrs. Violet Clarke, her teachers and her family, in nurturing her interest in the English language.

She graduated with Chemistry as the main subject and Physics as the ancillary subject from Ethiraj College, Chennai. She then completed her post-graduate degree in Sociology followed by another in English from Bombay University. She discovered her talent in teaching when she scored excellently in Practice Teaching in her B Ed examination. She has been working with Kendriya Vidyalaya for the past twenty-three years, first at Dhrangadhra, Gujarat, and currently at Kendriya Vidyalaya Hebbal, Bangalore. While teaching, she pursued her higher studies in American Literature and worked on her Doctoral thesis 'Ambivalence towards Women in Nineteenth century American novels, specially of Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville'.

She has enjoyed her work and has always been fascinated by the children she teaches. She has used her creativity to bring out ways and means of helping students to learn better, whether it is Science or English. Her training in computers has further helped her in using this powerful medium as a means of imparting knowledge. She has been able to put her ideas into a number of presentations that she has prepared for use in teaching. She has also prepared worksheets for English language learning and has successfully tried out various methods of teaching Spoken English particularly to students who do not posses adequate language repertoire.

Dr Ranganathan has gone a long way in understanding the needs of young learners. She is sure that her association with young minds can only become stronger and her determination to do her best would be strengthened with time.