Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu

Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu
AuthorHumayun Azad
LanguageBengali
SubjectBengali rural life, boyhood, adolescence, juvenile sexuality
GenreNovel
Set in1960s decades's East Pakistan's Bikrampur
PublisherAgamee Prakashani
Publication date
February 2000
Publication placeBangladesh
Media typePrint
Pages160 (3rd print, 2006)
ISBN978-984-04-1697-4
OCLC45790727

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 in Ekushey Book Fair by Agamee Prakashani. The novel tells the story of a boy's rural life of Bikrampur of 1960s decade and is 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, belongs to a farmer-family and Azad was not from a farmer-family though he was grown up in a village in Bikrampur.

The main subject of the novel is about life-leading of a boy named Jalkador in a village in Bikrampur (Bikrampur is now known as Munshiganj District) in 1960s decade when Bangladesh was known as East Pakistan. The novel tells the story of his journey as a rural Bengali boy from boyhood to adolescence.

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