Milind Ranad received his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Pune in 1980. He then attended the Film and Television Institute of India, where he received a Post Graduate Diploma in Filmmaking in 1985. He has been teaching Hindi and Marathi at various universities in the Philadelphia area for the past 19 years. He is currently an adjunct instructor of Hindi at Temple University, where he teaches Hindi Elements I and II, and Hindi Intermediate I and II. He is also an instructor of Marathi at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches Elementary and Intermediate Marathi. He has also taught Hindi at the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, the University of Sciences, and the Startalk Hindi and Urdu Program at Princeton, New Jersey. He enjoys teaching and is passionate about sharing his knowledge of Hindi and Marathi with his students.

Milind is committed to continuous learning and professional development. In 2005, he participated in a five-day workshop at the University of Pennsylvania on Communicative Language Teaching. In 2006, he participated in a five-day SALRC (South Asia Language Resource Center, University of Chicago) Pedagogy Workshop on Assessment Concepts and Theory. These workshops have helped him to improve his teaching skills and to become a more effective instructor. Milind was a participant in a Fulbright Hays project 2022-2023, which included a 30-day study tour of India with the aim of studying the impact of Climate Change and local activism to mitigate it and use the research material to create Hindi language syllabi and lesson plans.

In addition to teaching, Milind has worked as a freelance cameraman and a chief assistant cameraman for a number of feature films, documentaries, TV serials, and programs in the Mumbai Film Industry, popularly known as 'Bollywood' in India. He also wrote, produced, and directed an Indian feature film titled Lutaloot. This film premiered in Philadelphia in 2003.

He has been working as a freelance cartoonist in the U.S. and India for various newspapers since 1978. His cartoons have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has also published a book of cartoons titled Cartoonyatra. He is also a self-trained animator. He has done book illustrations and Political Cartoon work for book publishers, authors, and websites.