Her doctoral work ‘Journalistic Works of Khushwant Singh: An Analysis of Themes and Treatment’ is an important document in journalistic studies. As far as her other qualifications are concerned she has done M.Sc (Mass Comm), M.A. (English), PGDBM and UGC(NET). She has been anchoring programmes on All India radio and Doordarshan for many years. She has presented papers in many International and National Conferences. Dr Bala has been writing research papers and articles on wide array of media issues for many journals and magazines of National and International repute.