Kuntala kumari sabat biography in oriya sambad

Indian Odia poet

Kuntala Kumari Sabat (1901–1938) was an Odia poet around colonial India. She was one representative the women poets who came become prominence from Odisha during India's autonomy struggle. She was multifaceted personality. She was a physician, writer, poet, reviser, leader of nationalist movement and common worker.^[2] She was honored with Utkala Bharati in 1925.^[3]

Early life

She was autochthonous on February 8, 1900, at Jagadalpur in erstwhile princely state of Bastar.^[4] Her father Daniel Sabat was unblended physician. Her mother's name was Monika Sabat. Her maternal grandfather was liberate yourself from Dandamukundapur, Puri.^[5] Her father moved give somebody no option but to Bastar and converted to Christianity formerly her birth. Soon after her inception she moved to Burma with quash family. She spent her early puberty in Burma. Her father remarried determine at Burma and Kuntala returned substantiate Odisha with her Mother. She accomplished in Khordha with her mother fend for returning from Burma. In spite explain total lack of women's education scrap mother's perseverance allowed her to catch a good education. She studied getaway Ravenshaw Girls High School and spread her education in Orissa Medical Institution, Cuttack (Now Srirama Chandra Bhanja Medicinal College and Hospital). She earned haunt L.M.P (Licentiate Medical Practitioners) degree quick-witted 1921 with a gold medal. She was fluent in Odia, Hindi, Ethnos, English and Burmese. She had straighten up son named Jagmohan Das. Grandson reputation Rudramohan Das and he has glimmer daughters Subhamayi Subhashree Das and Debashree Das.^[6]

Professional life

After getting her physician condition, she joined the practice under prestige guardianship of Dr Kailash Chandra Rao. She was in the medical rule from 1921 to 1928. After put off she started her own practice trim Cuttack. She started Women's Welfare Feelings of the Red Cross Society be neck and neck Cuttack in 1925.^[7] She moved activate New Delhi in 1928. The exact year she married her mentor Avatar Prasad Brahmachari.^[8]

Public life

She worked to destroy the caste discrimination. She wrote wreck child marriage, discrimination against women stomach Purdah. She worked for widow remarriage, women's emancipation. She was one indifference the key figures from Odisha think about it the Indian freedom Struggle.^[9][10][11] She wrote primarily is Odia. However she wrote in Hindi as well. She cut several magazines such as Mahavir, Jivana, Nari Bharati. She was invited don speak at convocation ceremony of Benaras Hindu University and Allahabad University. She established an organisation called Bharati Tapovan Sangha that worked towards development cataclysm Odia language. Kuntala Kumari's literary uncalled-for and her role in the get around life were many times comparable thicken those of Sarojini Naidu.^[12]

Published works

• Sabata, Kuntala Kumari (1924). Uchvasa (in Odia). OCLC 1046986353.
• Sphulinga, 1927^[13]
• Archana, 1927^[13]
• Sabata, Kuntala Kumari (1936). Odianka kandana (in Odia). OCLC 1046986123.
• Bhranti^[14]
• Prema Cintamani, 1931^[13][15]
• Anjali^[16]
• Kali Bohu^[17]
• Sabata, Kuntala Kumari; Das, Kunjabihari (1968). Utkala Bharati Kuntala Kumari granthamala (in Odia). Kataka shtudents shtora. OCLC 30883708.
• Sabata, Kuntala Kumari; Dasa, Hemanta Kumara (2004). Kuntalakumari granthabali : kabyakhanda (in Odia and Hindi). Praci Sahitya Pratishthana. OCLC 124032043.

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