Whereas the southern neighborhoods, like Ballygunge, Bhowanipore, Alipore, Rashbehari Avenue, Dhakuria, Gariahat, Jadavpur, Hazra Road, Kasba, Tollygunge, Garia, and Jodhpur Park does have a slight "Bangal" influence but frequently identified with cosmopolitan Bengalis and their culture, cuisine and identity.
Ruby Hospital, the office of Siemens and a host of government-sponsored housing complexes came up in the area.
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(Incidentally, the word 'kasba', which means the same in Hindi and Bengali, also means the same as the Arabic 'casbah'. It is however, not recorded whether The Clash had South Calcutta in mind when they wrote 'Rock the Casbah'.)
Kasba another rich cultural village 13 km away from Panagarh
Kasba | Kasba Tadla |
Late in life, he appeared in several films, including Saeed Mirza's Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Tamas (1986), Kumar Shahani's Kasba (1991), Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha (1993) and Aparna Sen's Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002).
The patelship of the village of Bidkin was for a long time in the hands of Saiads, whose tombs are scattered over the kasba and pet, and are objects of veneration to the inhabitants.
Hence Dadoji Konddeo built a pendol in front of the idol where the Kasba Ganpati Temple is today.