At the Kodala-Athagada Mahotsav — a multi-day cultural festival held in Kodala, Ganjam from 25 to 28 February 2008 — Basanta Kumari Samanta was presented with a formal manapatra recognizing her as a poet and litterateur. The citation followed her recital at the festival's poets' conference, part of a body of Odia literary work that runs alongside her better-known career as a painter, and reflects the standing she had already built across Ganjam's cultural circuit by the mid-2000s.
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