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unusual facts about Rock the Casbah


Daphna Dove

It was on the third week when Daphna performed "Rock the Casbah" by The Clash that Daphna was placed in the Bottom 3 by the American public.


Kasba, Kolkata

(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'.)


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