[6] In the 1970s, when Bajaria was 4, her parents moved from London to the United States' West Coast with her brother to explore business opportunities.
However, her parents overstayed their visas and became illegal immigrants, resulting in her being raised by her grandparents until they could legally obtain residency.
[7] Upon joining her parents in the United States in 1978, she enrolled in the local Los Angeles public schools during a time when it was "not cool to be Indian."
As an assistant, she read all of the scripts and spent hours in CBS' basement videotape library studying old films.
[8] When television films began to decline, she requested a move to CBS' production studio to develop cable shows.