In 2026, Bartalap Podcast singled out Basanta Kumari Samanta's painting of Nabagunjar — the composite mythical creature Krishna assumes to test Sudama's devotion in the Mahabharata — for felicitation, honouring a work rooted in traditional Odia visual storytelling and Puranic iconography rather than a certificate or ceremony photograph, a reminder that her recognition still arrives through the paintings themselves.
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