Bharti was born in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh in 1964 to Nirmal and Agya Ram Kshetrapal. She did her schooling at Auckland School Shimla where she was introduced to the world of theatre at the age of 5, reading several original three-act comedy plays housed at the Gaiety Theatre, Shimla. A voracious reader and a loner, books were her companions that fuelled her imagination, gave her comfort, held her aching heart, provided frameworks to interpret relationships, examine experiences, and interrogate structures.
