[1] Ravishankar sent her first few stories to Tinkle, a comic book published by Amar Chitra Katha.
[1] When her family moved to Chennai in 1996, she was hired to be an editor at Tara Books, a children's publishing house in the city.
There she authored Tiger on a Tree, a book of nonsense verse that was translated to Japanese, Korean and French.
In 2019 Penguin Random House India acquired all book publishing assets of the company.
"[5] A few of her books, like Catch that Crocodile!, Elephants Never Forget and Tiger on a Tree, were inspired by real-life events.