Kavita

Kavita (hindi : कविता) is an Hindu/Sanskrit Indian popular feminine given name, which means "poetry" or "poem".

Notable people named Kavita

Kavita (poetry magazine)

Kavita (Bengali: কবিতা), also spelled Kobita, is a Bengali poetry magazine that, from the 1930s until 1961, played a central role in introducing modernism into Bengali poetry. It was edited and published by poet Buddhadeva Bose.

History

The first literary magazine published by poet Buddhadeva Bose was Pragati. He was then living in Dhaka. It was short lived and the last issue was published in 1929. Four years after migrating from Dhaka to Calcutta in 1931, Buddhadeva decided to publish a literary magazine exclusively for poetry. He named it Kavita. He was then living in 'Golam Mohammad Mansion' in Calcutta city. The first issue of the Kavita was published from there in the month of October 1935. For the first two years, Kavita was co-edited by Buddhadeva Bose and Premendra Mitra while poet Samar Sen worked as the assistant editor. It is notable that Kavita was a poetry magazine styled after the Poetry published by Harriet Monroe from Chicago. While discussing Bengali poetry, Edward Thomson referred to the first issue of Kavita in The Times Literary Supplement of 1 February 1936.