The Untroddden Path), Chorabali and Alibha Chita, among which Amada Bata has been adapted into an Odia film by same name.

Basanta Kumari was born on 15 December 1923 in Bhanjanagar, a town in Ganjam district of state of Odisha in a Karan family.

[2] Along with her brother, Rajkishore Patnaik,[3] she founded a publishing company known as Shanti Nibas Bani Mandira, which was active from 1959 to 1962.

Sabhyatara Saja (1950; The Veneer of Civilization) and Patala Dheu (1952) and Jivanchinha (1959) are her short story collections.

She published two poetry collections: Chintanala (1956) and Taranga; and two plays: Jaura Bhatta (1952) and Mruga Trushna (1956).