Dhanshiri River

This article is about the river in Bangladesh. For the river in Assam, see Dhansiri River.

Dhanshiri is a river in the Jhalokati District of Bangladesh. Once it was full of youth but today it is becoming narrower.[1]

Significance

Local lore has it that poet Jibanananda Das had a maternal uncle in Bamankathi village, and during childhood visits there fell in love with the natural beauty of the Dhanshiri River.[2] However he came to know the river, he wrote of it poignantly in his poem "I will come back again":

I will come back again to Bengal, to this Dhansiri riverside
Maybe not as a man — but a shalik, or white-crest kite;
Or a dawn crow maybe, new-rice-time, in misty flight
To this jackfruit-tree-shade one Kartik day will glide.[1]

  1. ^ Doshi, Tishani (6 July 2003). "Literary Review: The loneliest poet". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 January 2016.  Doshi reviews Joe Winter's translation of Jibanananda Das, including his poem "আবার আসিব ফিরে" ("I will come back again").

References

  1. ↑ Amin, Aasha Mehreen (4 June 2004). "Capturing Natural Treasures". Star Magazine (The Daily Star). Retrieved 27 May 2008.
  2. ↑ Eagle, Andrew (28 February 2014). "Questions for a Lone Bird Called Das". The Daily Star. Retrieved 29 January 2016.

Coordinates: 22°35′37″N 90°09′52″E / 22.5935°N 90.1645°E / 22.5935; 90.1645


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