Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "pluralism"

Abolish all white teachers from schools
and universities across the world,
and replace them with noncaucasians,
and the human race will be decolonized
and properly civilized within a hundred years –

but then again, that would be just as inhuman,
ethnic cleansing doesn’t cure ethnic cleansing,
so we have to go for the only humane alternative,
and sanitize every last textbook of all whitewashing.

Give up the filthy habit of associating philosophy
with the greeks, and poetry with the english –
education that doesn’t reflect plural humanity,
raises only goodlooking jungle rubbish.

We need special instruments to see
the full spectrum of electromagnetic waves,
but to feel the full spectrum of humanity
a heart freed from supremacy is sufficient.

I switch cultures like clothes,
I switch sciences like pens.
I switch scriptures like tides,
I switch languages like seasons.

Service of humanity is supreme shahada,
to defend the persecuted is cosmic khalsa,
to treat neighbor as god is real dharma,
quiet kindness is the real karma.

Ana al-haqq, ana al-hub –
aham bindu, aham brahmanda.
I shed dogma like dead skin,
el cosmos es mi casa.

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.

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.