Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu

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Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu

Author	Humayun Azad
Original title	নিজের সঙ্গে নিজের জীবনের মধু
Country	Bangladesh
Language	Bengali
Subject	Bengal's rural life, boyhood, adolescence
Genre	Novel
Set in	1950s decade's East Bengal's Bikrampur
Publisher	Agamee Prakashani
Publication date	February 2000
Media type	Print
Pages	152[1]
ISBN	978-984-04-1697-4
OCLC	45790727

Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu (Bengali: নিজের সঙ্গে নিজের জীবনের মধু, lit. 'The honey of one's life with himself') is a Bengali novel written by Bangladeshi author Humayun Azad. It was first published in February, 2000^[2] in Ekushey Book Fair by Agamee Prakashani. The novel deals with rural life of Bikrampur of 1950s decade and believed to be inspired by author's own childhood life as Azad was also born and brought up in Bikrampur which is now known as Munshiganj District, however the fictitious character Jalkador, who is the main protagonist of the novel, is an illiterate boy.

Subject[]

The main subject of the novel is about growing-up of a boy named Jalkador in Rarhikhal village of Bikrampur (the village is now in Sreenagar Upazila of Munshiganj District) in 1950s decade when Bangladesh was part of Pakistan. The novel tells the story of his journey as a rural Bengali boy from boyhood to adolescence. The story begins when he is ten years old and ends when he is fifteen.

Author Humayun Azad dedicated this novel to his childhood rural friends^[3] and compared the novel to Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's novel Pather Panchali.^[4]

Plot[]

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Jalkador lives in Rarhikhal village with his parents and siblings; he has one brother and one sister who are named Abju and Moyna respectively. Though his family is well-off in the village, Jalkador comes from a farming background; his father is a farmer and he is a cowboy who raises cattle who does not go to school and speaks local dialect of the Bengali language. He grows up gradually but his penis is not circumcised according to the village rituals. When monsoon comes, Jalkador sees flood, their whole village is affected by the flood, flood also attacks their house. As Jalkador’s family is well off, flood-affect recovery is easily done in their house.

Jalkador sees canoe sprint and kabaddi game in their village, he takes part in the kabaddi game. His friend Majid teaches him to smoke cigarette and they talk about when to get circumcised, they see each other’s penis secretly. From Majid Jalkador learns basic knowledge about sexuality.

Autumn season comes, Jalkador learns to masturbate, before it he faces nocturnal emission; he is already a teen-ager during this time. He gets sexually aroused seeing female snake-charmers.

Setting[]

This novel was set in the 1950s decade’s Bengali rural life of East Pakistan. At that time East Pakistani villages had no electricity, nor had any advantage of good sanitation, however well-off families of Bengali villages sent their children to schools but Jalkador and his siblings don’t go to school nor Jalkador’s parents have literacy.

Characters[]

• Jalkador - The main protagonist of the novel, a young Bengali rural boy
• Abju and Moyna - Jalkador's siblings, junior to Jalkador
• Majid - Jalkador's friend
• Rokman - Jalkador's family's servant

References[]

External links[]

• Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu at amazon.com
• Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu at worldcat