MIRI JIYORI

 Miri Jiyori is an Assamese novel written by one of the doyen of Assamese literature Rajanikanta Bordoloi. I remember reading it during my graduation. It is the story of the ineffable love of a young couple. The novel is based on the love story of this couple and depicts the customs and traditions associated with the Mising community. This is a book that speaks a lot about the life of the Mising community. Some of the main characters of the novel are-Jonki, Panoi, Dalimi, etc to name a few. The Mising are an integral part of the larger Assamese society and live mainly by the side of the river banks in some of the districts of Assam like Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, etc. I had this privilege of knowing them closely and coming to terms with their customs and traditions as my father worked as a school teacher in Putabil village of  Lakhimpur district, Assam. As I read the book I kept on flipping through the pages and could well visualize being spent my childhood days in the mustard and turmeric fields of a Mising village. It is this love story of these two characters which adds to the beauty of the novel. As an Assamese song goes like

Ghunahuti r e parot bohi oi

Jonki Panoi r kotha hunibo r mon jai

This translates to sitting on the banks of the Ghunahuti river I would like to listen to the tale of Jonki and Panoi. They are very popular in Assam and this is one of the most loved books from my collection. If you get to travel through the villages of Assam you get to experience the rustic beauty of the places around. Somewhere you get to see a boy on a buffalo and somewhere else some children playing and making mud sculptures on the side of the river banks.


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Location: Tezpur, Assam, India

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