Born in Ohio to Punjabi immigrants from India, she moved to rural Georgia at the age of three and Orange County, California at twelve.
[1] Batra was a producer and writer on Scrubs, where she also played the character Josephine.
Mike Henry, commenting on being a white man voicing the African American Cleveland Brown, noted how the character's stereotypical redneck neighbors were voiced by black actor Kevin Michael Richardson and Batra.
[4] In February 2015, it was announced that Batra would write a "politically incorrect" sitcom pilot for NBC alongside the Russo brothers, with whom she had previously worked on Animal Practice and an unfinished semi-autobiographical comedy.
[5] Three years later, the same network picked up an untitled project written by Batra and executive produced alongside Amy Poehler;[6] it aired in September as I Feel Bad, which ran for a single, 13-episode season.