Four years after migrating from Dhaka to Calcutta in 1931, Buddhadeva decided to publish a literary magazine exclusively for poetry.
For the first two years, Kavita was co-edited by Buddhadeva Bose and Premendra Mitra while poet Samar Sen worked as the assistant editor.
While discussing Bengali poetry, Edward Thomson referred to the first issue of Kavita in The Times Literary Supplement of 1 February 1936.
[citation needed] Buddhadeva Bose lived at 202 Rasbihari Avenue, Calcutta for several decades starting in 1936.
[citation needed] Selected poems and articles published in the Kavita have been collected in a three-volume anthology.