Kavitakusumavali (Bengali: কবিতাকুসুমাবলী) was the first poetry magazine published in Dhaka in what is today Bangladesh.[1][2]

History edit

Kavitakusumavali was established in May 1860. Krishna Chandra Majumder was the first editor of the magazine. Harish Chandra Mitra and Prasannakumar Sen were the other founding editors. The magazine was sold for one and half anna. The magazine continued to be published till 1872. It had 400 subscribers.[3][4][5]

References edit

  1. ^ The Indian P.E.N. P.E.N. All-India Centre. 1963. p. 72.
  2. ^ Sāhitya-sādhak-caritmālā (in Bengali). Bāngiya Sāhitya Parisat. 1958. p. 41.
  3. ^ Mamoon, Muntassir. "Kavitakusumavali". Banglapedia. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  4. ^ Dui śatakera Bāṃlā saṃbāda-sāmaẏikapatra: Adhyāpaka Sudhīra Cakrabarti sammānanā grantha (in Bengali). Pustaka Bipaṇi. 2005. p. 173. ISBN 978-81-85471-99-0.
  5. ^ Dhrupadi (in Bengali). 1968. p. 129.