Dhanshiri River

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

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. 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."