She was married to the Indian National Congress leader and celebrated Malayalam author A. P. Udayabhanu.
She hailed from the famous Ezhava family, Komalezhathu from Mavelikkara, Alapuzha district, Kerala.
During her university days, she met her future husband, fell in love and the couple married when both of them were hardly twenty.
[1][2] Bharati was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament from Kerala for the first time in 1954.
[4] Bharati Udayabhanu passed away at her residence in Trivandrum in April 1983 due to a cardiac arrest.