Reply to “Comment on ‘Thermal shape fluctuation model study of the giant dipole resonance in Gd 152 ’ ”

We reply to the Comment by Chakrabarty and Datar, wherein they have provided a better representation of giant dipole resonance (GDR) cross sections in $^{152}\mathrm{Gd}$, along with a revised data analysis. They have demonstrated that the results presented in our original paper calculated with higher dipole-dipole interaction strength ($\ensuremath{\eta}$) are in better agreement with the data. Consequently, both the cross sections and width could be explained with the same $\ensuremath{\eta}$, unlike in Sec. III of our original paper. However, the conclusions drawn in our original paper remain intact.