What is Kuntala Kumari Sabat?
{{wikify|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox writer | name = କୁନ୍ତଳା କୁମାରୀ ସାବତKuntala Kumari Sabat | image = Portrait of Kuntala Kumari Sabat.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1901|02|08|df=y}} | birth_place = [[ଜଗଦଳପୁର]], [[ଓଡ଼ିଶା]], [[ଭାରତ]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1938|08|23|1901|02|01|df=y}} | occupation = କବି | language = [[ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା|ଓଡ଼ିଆ]] | movement = | nationality = ଭାରତୀୟ | period = | signature = Sign Kuntala kumari Sabat Odia writer.png }} '''Kuntala Kumari Sabat'''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-08-14|title=Kuntala Kumari Sabat: The woman who used poetry as a weapon in freedom struggle|url=http://www.inuth.com/india/women-freedom-fighters-of-india/kuntala-kumari-sabat-the-woman-who-used-poetry-as-a-weapon-in-freedom-struggle/|access-date=2021-10-23|website=InUth|language=en-US}}</ref> (8 February 1901 – 23 August 1938) was an [[Odia language|Odia]] poet during colonial India. Kuntala Kumari Sabat was born on 8 February 1901, at [[Jagadalpur]] in [[Bastar]] region. Her parents were Daniel and Monica. Shortly after her birth, her parents went to [[Burma]] with family. So Kuntala Kumari passed her early childhood in [[Burma]] with her parents. Then she returned to Khurda with her mother Monica after her father got remarried at Burma. She completed her early school education at Ravenshaw Girl’s School and higher study at the Medical School, [[Cuttack]]. Kuntala Kumari composed poems during her school days. She came out successfully from the medical school and became popular as a doctor with her sincerity and simplicity. [[Kailash Rao]] was her literary teacher who guided her literary activities. Kuntala Kumari enrolled herself as a member of ‘Nava Vidhan’, the ‘Brahmo Society’. She got wide applause when poems, ‘Anjali’ came out. She won praise from almost all the literary figures of [[Odisha|Orissa]]. A leading cultural association of women conferred on her the title ‘[[Utkal Bharati]]’. [[Gopal Chandra Praharaj]] and Pallikabi Nanda Kishore Bal loved her and adopted her as their daughter