At its 31st Cultural Festival in 2024, the Anchalika Kala O Sanskrutika Sangathan of Laxmeswar, Khallikote honoured Basanta Kumari Samanta as a Saraswata Sadhaka — a literary practitioner — recognizing a lifetime spent moving between painting and Odia poetry within the same Ganjam cultural landscape where her career began over sixty years earlier.
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