Kuntala Kumari Sabat

Kuntala Kumari Sabat (1901–1938) was an Odia poet during colonial India.

She was a physician, writer, poet, editor, leader of nationalist movement and social worker.

She studied from Ravenshaw Girls High School and continued her education in Orissa Medical School, Cuttack (Now Srirama Chandra Bhanja Medical College and Hospital).

[6] After getting her physician degree, she joined the practice under the guardianship of Dr Kailash Chandra Rao.

She started Women's Welfare Center of the Red Cross Society at Cuttack in 1925.

She established an organisation called Bharati Tapovan Sangha that worked towards development of Odia language.

Kuntala Kumari's literary work and her role in the public life were many times comparable to those of Sarojini Naidu.