Gajra Kottary was born in Delhi, India, and was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary and Lady Shri Ram College for Women.
Kottary also wrote on developmental and women's issues for CHOICES, the magazine of the United Nations Development Program.
Gajra debuted as an author in early 1996 with her first collection of women-centric short stories, titled Fragile Victories.
[3] It has been entered as the longest running Hindi soap on Indian Television in the Limca Book of Records 2016.
She is a creative producer for Zee's Zindagi channel, namely TV Ke Uss Paar and Khwaabon Ki Zamin Par.