Her earlier tour of the United States, to talk about India, gave British government intelligence significant concern.

[3][7] In 1938, after her engagement to Guy Robinson Mansell in England,[8] she made another trip to India, this time to study the Congress movement, in preparation for a future lecture tour of the United States.

[3] After spending time at Anand Bhavan, she returned to England via Europe, accompanying Jawaharlal Nehru as his personal secretary.

[10] British government intelligence became concerned after noting that she regularly attended meetings of the India League and had planned a US tour.

[16] It was reported in one newspaper that "no other speaker who has appeared at the Washington Athletic Club has carried the enchantment, the fascination, the brilliance and stimulation that 28-year-old Bhicco Batlivala does".

[1] Professor of American literature Clive Bush noted that Batlivala was writing about wartime India's civil and political rights as early as 1941.

[20] On 24 February 1943, the press reported that day that Batlivala headed a group of Indian women and led them to the Central Lobby of the House of Commons to request the release of Mahatma Gandhi from prison.

[22] The Derby Daily Telegraph described the Indian women in "beautiful native robes", and reported that Batlivala said "We are urging that the release of Gandhi should be put before the government as a very urgent matter.

[24] The Belfast Newsletter, dated 27 May 1932, described her as "dainty and slender, a peculiarly attractive feature being her pretty red-brown hair, which is bobbed and dressed in soft curls in her neck".

[30] The Civil and Military Gazette featured her with the Princess of Nepal, when they helped sell tickets to Sāvitri, performed at the Playhouse Theatre for the purpose of raising funds[31] for the Twelfth Congress for the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship in Istanbul that was held in April 1935.

[32][33] Later in the summer of 1935 she appeared in Tatler photographed with Major General Nawab Khusru Jung, and was described as "a charming visitor from Bombay".

[34] In 1964, she would be mentioned in the New York Times when despite rain and muddy grounds at Ascot, "she swept through the storm in a gold-and-white sari, her hemline dragging through the mud".