Anji was born in 1973 in Yorkshire. She was a third-generation British-Asian working as a futures trader. (PROSE: Escape Velocity) She was a Hindu, but hadn't visited the temple since she was a child. (PROSE: The Crooked World) When she started school, she pretended that her name was Angela in an attempt to be accepted. When Anji was twenty-eight, her boyfriend, actor and science fiction fan Dave Young, died during a Kulan invasion of Earth. (PROSE: Escape Velocity) Anji found this hard to deal with. Her grief was so severe that she had Dave cloned. (PROSE: Hope)