'Balaka' accomodated different subjects so that it could get different types of readers. The departments were : Novel, Poetry, Story, Essay, and biography, Drama, Music, Editorial, Letters to the Editor and others.
On scrutiny it was found that during 11 months of publication of the monthly magazine Balaka, 120 articles were published of which Rabindranath, himself, wrote 45 articles, other members of Tagore family wrote 36 articles and known important persons wrote 39 articles. Hence Rabindranath wrote more than 1/3 of the essays published in the magazine.
Only one novel, Rajarshi, published in the magazine was written by Rabindranath. He wtrote stories, drama, poetry etc.
