In 2024, the Argus satellite channel included Basanta Kumari Samanta among the honourees of Nari Shakti Unlimited, Season 3, its ongoing series celebrating women achievers across Odisha. The trophy placed her before a broadcast-media audience far removed from gallery walls and literary sabhas — recognition of an artist whose six-decade body of work now reaches well beyond Ganjam's art and literary circles.
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