Mrs. V. Banerjee is a Kanarese, born in Trichi on 12 July 1948, in a middle class Hindu family, to Shri S. Rangaswamy, a distinguished police officer and Smt. Rajammal. Brought up in Tamil Nadu, she studied in Coimbatore, Trichi and Salem in Tamil Nadu and Pune in Maharashtra and worked in Lucknow, Delhi, and Gurugram in India, and Kabul in Afghanistan. She is married to Mr. Tapan Banerjee, a Bengali, and they are settled in Delhi. That’s truly an Indian with diversity! She has two daughters and a lovely grandson.