Jessore Road
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Jessore Road is an international highway connecting Kolkata in India with Jashore in Bangladesh. This highway originates at Shyambazar in Kolkata to Daratana interchange in Jashore. While the Indian p
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Jessore Road Near Dum Dum, Kolkata, India
September on Jessore Road
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"September on Jessore Road" is a poem by American poet and activist Allen Ginsberg, inspired by the plight of the East Bengali refugees from the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Ginsberg wrote it after
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…Railway Station, Lake Town, Bangur Avenue, Dum Dum Park, Nagerbazar, Dum Dum Cantonment, Birati, Madhyamgram, Barasat etc. Allen Ginsberg wrote a poem "September on Jessore Road" after visiting refugee camps in 1971: Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road—long bamboo huts…
Monsoon conditions on the Jessore Road at Barasat, West Bengal (pictured in 2011)
Bob Dylan (left) and Ginsberg in 1975, four years after they collaborated on a musical adaptation of "September on Jessore Road". Photo: Elsa Dorfman.