Career
He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. He has made multiple appearances on comedy panel shows and in 2016, he co-presented lieutenant"s Not Rocket Science, alongside Rachel Riley and Ben Miller. He is also regular panellist on Play to the Whistle and The Apprentice: You"re Fired!.
As mentioned on a 2013 episode of Live at the Apollo (series 9) in which he featured, Ranganathan started performing as a comedian whilst a mathematics teacher at Hazelwick School in Crawley, and The Beacon School, Banstead, Surrey.
Ranganathan started presenting Newsjack on Radio 4 Extra in March 2014. He appeared on The Great British Bake Office: An Extra Slice in 2014, during which he presented his homemade vegan chocolate brownies.
Ranganathan is a vegan, having been a vegetarian up until 2013. Ranganathan has guested on multiple episodes of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
He has also appeared on, Holby City, Soccer Department of Administration and Management, Russell Howard"s Good News, Sweat the Small Stuff, The Last Legal, Virtually Famous, Have I Got News for You and Mock the Week.
He was a regular contestant on the first series of Taskmaster and also appeared in the third episode of Jon Richardson Grows Up. In 2015 he presented a series for British Broadcasting Corporation Three, Asian Provocateur, in which he travelled to Sri Lanka to explore his ancestral country. He also joined The Apprentice: You"re Fired! in 2015 as a regular panellist.
The show is a spin-off of from The Apprentice.
In December 2015, he appeared in Josh Widdicombe"s sitcom, Josh. In 2016, he will co-present lieutenant"s Not Rocket Science, a new entertainment series for Independent Television alongside Ben Miller and Rachel Riley.