Kuvai river flowing by Shantiniketan is a famous river in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal state of India. This river flows near Shantiniketan and it has a place in the history of West Bengal.

This river was the favourite of Rabindranath Tagore and he loved to relax on the bank of this river. This is a beautiful river and poets from Bengal have penned about the beauty of the river many times.