•Dr.R.Balachandran Populary Known as BALA is a well Known

Poet , Critic, Translator, Broadcaster and an   academic of repute

Now Prof and Head of the Department of English M.S.University   Tirunelveli.

•Born Sivagangai India 1946

Education:

Pre-University course R.D.M. College,Sivagangai

B.S. from Alagappa College, Karaikudi

M.A. from Sri Venkateshwara University Tirupati With Old English and Milton as his Special Papers.

• Ph.D From Bharathidasan University

Specialization: Comparative Literature

Areas of interest :subaltern studies postcolonial Writings and Translation Studies..

Research:Guided 28 M.phil scholars Eight Ph.D.scholars

•Academic Positions: Lecturer in English

Reader in English in 1993.

Professor of English 2001 and now Head of the Department of English of the University.

UGC VISITING PROFESSOR: Department of Comparative Literatrure Jadavpur University Kolkatha

•Head, Department of New Poetry & Poetics, M.S.University (2001-02)
•Publication Officer, University Publication Division, M.S.University (2000)
•Director, Community Colleges, MSU 2001-02

• Editor, University News Letter, Manonmaniam /sundranar University Tirunelveli
First Spell : 1993-96
Second Spell: 1999 to 2001.
Third spell: 2002-03
• Convener, Committee for Implementation of Tamil, MSU.1993- 2001: .
• Founder Secretary MSU Campus Film Society 1993-2000
• Member MANO Book Fair Committee 1993-2001
• Member Translation Cell MSU
• Coordinator, MSU Inter Univ. Sports Programs 1993-2001
• Member, Subramania Bharathi Archives Committee MSU 2001-02
• Member Mano Colleges Subcommittee, (Rural Colleges of Arts & Science )

Member, Review Committee for National Council of Accreditiaon.. NAAC
• Member of several commissions appointed by the University on academic matters—like grant of affiliation, grant of additional seats, grant of new courses, sanction of Research centers, inspection of infra structure facilities and also examination squads. Some such institutions visited are:
Member of many college committees

Member of Board of Studies of many unviersities

HONOURS AND AWARDS
•Poet Invitee to represent Tamil Nadu to the National Symposium of Poets of India Lucknow 1994 organized   by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India
•State Bank of India Poetry Award , 1991
•Sirpi Poetry Award 2000
•STATE AWARD FOR POETRY Govt. of Tamilnadu Award - 2000

•Official Delegate World Tamil Conference Thanjavur.

Foreign visits -Invitations as a Writer

Minsitry of Culture, Sri Lanka

Bharthiya vidya Bhavan,Newyork, the United States Invited through Dept of Culture, Govt of India.

Seminar Invitations :International Comparative Literature Congress Canada

•Prof Bala has to his Credit more than 20 Books in Tamil and English ,besides many articles and Papers. They Include Poetry collections,criticism,conversations,and Monographs,critical surveys of Literature,Translation and edited volumes of essays.

National Level Associations:

Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters):

General Council Member of the Akademi

Executive Committee of the Akademi

Member Editorial Board Emcyclopaedui of Indian Poetics

Convenor Editor History of Tamil Literature 3 volumes

Editor Literary Theory and Tamil Literary Criticism

Books Authored:

Poetry 2

criticism 8

Edited Volumes 4

]Translations 3

Monographs 1

Theory 1

Anthology 1

Saraswathi Samman Committees of Birla Fioundtion New Delhi.

    Convenor Tamil Bhasa Samiti

     Member Tamil Bhasa Samiti Committee

     Member Kendra Bhasa Samiti

Jury

Sahitya Akademi Translation Award Committee 2 terms

Nominating Jury Samsriti Award

Awards

Nominating Jury Varnamala award for Young Poets