Sarang was born in Karwar, Karnataka in the Bhandari caste.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Elphinstone College, Mumbai and Ph.D. from Bombay University.
[1] Sarang's stories have appeared in the UK, US, Canada and India in journals such as Encounter, The London Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Malahat Review, and also in the anthologies New Writing in India (Penguin), The Penguin Book of Horror Stories and New Directions No.
[3] His published books in English include a collection of stories, Fair Tree of the Void (translated from Marathi in 1990), and two novels, In the Land of Enki and The Dinosaurship (2005).
[1] His Marathi book 'सर्जनशोध आणि लिहिता लेखक' (Pursuit of Creation and Author Engaged in Writing) received an award of Government of Maharashtra in year 2008.