Dhanshiri is a river in the Jhalokati District of Bangladesh. It is narrower than it once was.[1]

Dhanshiri River
Location of mouth
Location
Country	Bangladesh
District	Jhalokati District

Significance

Local lore has it that poet Jibanananda Das had a maternal uncle in Bamankathi village(in today's Rajapur Upazila), and during his childhood visits there, he fell in love with the natural beauty of the Dhanshiri River.[2] He wrote of it poignantly in his poem "Ābāra āsiba phirē" (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.[3]

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