[4][5] Garg was raised in Delhi by her parents with five sisters and a brother, and began writing stories while she was a child.

[6] She was arrested for obscenity after her novel Chittacobra was published in 1979, in a case that extended for two years but did not result in prison.

Her novels and stories have been translated into a number of Indian and foreign languages like German, Czech, Japanese and English.

[5] She was a research associate at the Center for South Asian Studies in the University of California-Berkeley, USA in April 1990.

[citation needed] She has been invited to speak on Hindi literature and criticism, and discrimination against women, at universities and conferences in erstwhile Yugoslavia (1988), the USA (1990 and 1991), and was a delegate to Interlit-3, Germany(1993).