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“My roots run deep down to the core of earth, spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

My roots run deep down to the core of earth,
spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.

Starting out with an insatiable spark of expansion,
I spent my early teens devouring scriptures,
then my late teens and early twenties I spent
assimilating neuroscience and psychology,

but it wasn’t until my late twenties,
a few years after my first publication,
that the original Naskarian voice started
to awaken, a voice not only beyond nation,
religion and culture, but also beyond
eurocentric intellectual convention.

So many things were unfolding in my mind
at once, that it’s impossible for me to
piece together a coherent timeline of events.

But one thing was most striking, it’s that,
influence of the puny eurocentric schools of thought
was beginning to wear off, as cultures of the world
found an ideal vessel with zero chains of tribalism.

I became empty and let the world pour its wonders
into me, so it did, and I burn day in, day out, and
each time from the ashes a new pluralist text is born,
blasting all archaic, elitist and exclusivist narrative.

Tierra Carta (Charter of Earth, S2498) – Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Nationality and religion are like blood groups,
it has no relation to human capacity and character,
despite the superstitions and conspiracy theories;
morons are found in every corner of the world,
just like mavericks are found in every corner.

The only difference between blood groups
and nationality is that, blood groups are
a fundamental factor of medical treatment,
whereas nationality and religion are
fleeting vestiges of an adolescent species.

I opened my eyes and couldn’t find a single precedent
of post-national, post-religion, post-lingual,
post-cultural existence, so I became the precedent.

My roots go deep down to the core of earth,
spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.

Every Time An Ape is Born (Sonnet 2410) – Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Every time an ape is born, adult apes rush to assign its nation, religion, and culture – thus an entire species is raised as ape, lives as ape, and dies as ape, never to become human.

There’s no conspiracy, just convention, for this setup is ideal for profit, it’s ideal for political power – more divided the apes are, less they question what’s inhuman,

which is why infant apes are brainwashed day in, day out: ‘our culture is truth supreme, other cultures are alien’ –

even the schools are plugged into this system, along with the media, all aimed at one systemic objective, apes must never become human.

“My life is the experiment I leave to the world.” Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Monkeys have a deranged jungle instinct of yapping about their religion, nation and culture, which is why I made it a point to erase mine, for I say again, I exist for I dissolve in all.

My life is the experiment
I leave to the world;
neither failed, nor successful,
I am just a humanizing mutation.

God of The Blue Rock (Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

God of the gaps cannot
be God of the world,
and God of the world should not
be abused as god of the gaps.

As puny apes on an insignificant blue rock
in a tiny backwater of the galaxy, we know
nothing about the origin of the universe,
but I can tell you one thing for a fact of
earth biology, it has nothing to do with the
anthropomorphic god of all the scriptures.

If all it takes is a couple of burning bushes,
magic tricks and fairytales to quench your
quest for truth, you have neither the brain,
nor the backbone, or the heart to explore truth.

Fairytales provide nourishment for the mind,
but only as tales of fantasy, not of truth.
Myths are crucial part of the social fabric, but
they must never become the backbone of society.

When Destiny Turns To Dust (Sonnet 2406) – Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

At the end of the century,
fascism leaves no lasting mark
on thousand year old civilizations,
it’s only the adolescent countries like
the US that get wiped out of existence.

Tyrants come, tyrants go,
both foreign and domestic,
ancient civilizations endure political
upheaval like a bleep in the continuum,

whereas, destiny manifested on patchwork history
and bootleg culture, collapse into obsolescence.

So the world continues, culture continues,
reformation continues, even better without
the parasitic powers of world politics –
civilization thrives for they’re never aloof,
but ever entwined with Nature’s dynamics.

Either Internet or Privacy (Cybersecurity 101, Sonnet) – Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

The purpose of a strong password
is not to keep your accounts safe,
but to keep your accounts moderately
secure against common scammers, however,

if you become a target of actual hackers,
or a person of interest to the government,
have no doubt, your internet
activities are already monitored.

Paranoia of cybersecurity only ruins sanity,
it does nothing to establish security.
No technology that’s connected
to the internet is unhackable,
either you can have internet or privacy.

So, don’t post family pictures online,
keep your passwords moderately complex,
refrain from consentless content,
cloud is the last place to be private.

Pilgrimage to Plurality (Sonnet 2499) – Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Forget the canon, you can’t even make sense
of my titles, bleating like nationalist livestock,
and chanting like brainless bacon – you have to
have a certain amount of multicultural tendency,
which in a way, is your first test of pilgrimage,
moreover, it’s the key to the Naskar Canon.

If you have no desire to step outside your culture,
there’s no point in grabbing any of my text,
you might as well pick up a chinese or arab text,
and expect to be an expert while speaking only English.

My script may be English, my language is not –
remove your assumptions, transcend your disciplines;
it is only through pilgrimage to plurality,
that an ape ascends into humanity.

My goal is not to replace
white supremacy with colored supremacy,
or christian supremacy with muslim supremacy,
or blind faith with dispassionate logic,
I am a stateless weaver of human plurality.

Language is Highway to A Culture (Diary of A Polyglot Neuroscientist, S.2392) – Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Languages are not ornaments,
languages are organs,
channeling spirit from the heart.

Language is highway to a culture,
language requires a vessel, not translator.
Soon earbuds will feature instant translation,
which will render crosscultural conversation seamless,
but at the same time, lifeless, hollow and cold.

Until we develop the brain technology
to communicate meaning telepathically
without talking, no amount of translation
can carry the warmth, nuances and
sentiment of a lived language.

As added perk, speaking more than one language
delays age-related cognitive decline.
Therefore no matter how you look at it,
one broken second language is far more
valuable than all the mass-produced subtitles.

“Proof of the Sapiens is in the sharing.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

If a 3 pound brain can contain
a 100 billion nerve cells,
a planet with land the size of 20bn stadiums
should have room for 10 billion people.

Then how come, so many
have to survive on so little,
on a planet this size, this rich!

It all comes down to hoarding – if we
cared more about social responsibility
than social etiquette, we wouldn’t have
such drastic paradoxes of disparity.

In English we say:
proof of the pudding is in the eating.
In Naskarian we say:
proof of the Sapiens is in the sharing.