Abhijit Naskar's Blog, page 17
November 20, 2024
Colonizer of A Different Kind (The Sonnet) Abhijit Naskar | Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim: Little Planet on The Prairie
Only the shape of colonialism
has changed, not the nature.
Tendencies are just as filthy,
rightful heir to animal disaster.
I too am a colonizer,
but of a different kind.
I colonize no home by force,
with words I colonize minds.
Humanitarianism is civilized colonialism –
simpler still, humanitarianism is civilization.
That’s the contagion my literature carries,
through my proses and sonnetic revelation.
First thousand were an accident,
Second thousand, a promise.
Answer to traditional animosity,
Antidote to doting prejudice.
has changed, not the nature.
Tendencies are just as filthy,
rightful heir to animal disaster.
I too am a colonizer,
but of a different kind.
I colonize no home by force,
with words I colonize minds.
Humanitarianism is civilized colonialism –
simpler still, humanitarianism is civilization.
That’s the contagion my literature carries,
through my proses and sonnetic revelation.
First thousand were an accident,
Second thousand, a promise.
Answer to traditional animosity,
Antidote to doting prejudice.
Twit & Trash (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim: Little Planet on The Prairie
There is nothing more cataclysmic than
a sea of unarmed citizens out for justice –
even the richest oligarchic leeches,
armed with billions of robots, tanks
and satellites, would crumble like twigs.
Born to privilege, most tech giants are tech trash,
loaded with more nuts than the Enigma machine.
In the salacious pursuit of the silicon dream,
these nutters are the antithesis of Tesla and Turing.
Tech giants are giants by the will of people,
takes less than a month to bankrupt their worth.
Any giant who thinks they are above the people,
are the puniest form of termites on earth.
Clockwork mice and clockwork minds both can
run great distances with no sense of why?
Children of earth still sleep without food,
yet colonizer kids are headed for the sky!
a sea of unarmed citizens out for justice –
even the richest oligarchic leeches,
armed with billions of robots, tanks
and satellites, would crumble like twigs.
Born to privilege, most tech giants are tech trash,
loaded with more nuts than the Enigma machine.
In the salacious pursuit of the silicon dream,
these nutters are the antithesis of Tesla and Turing.
Tech giants are giants by the will of people,
takes less than a month to bankrupt their worth.
Any giant who thinks they are above the people,
are the puniest form of termites on earth.
Clockwork mice and clockwork minds both can
run great distances with no sense of why?
Children of earth still sleep without food,
yet colonizer kids are headed for the sky!
November 18, 2024
Dream Before Genes (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim: Little Planet on The Prairie
As a teenager I only had one dream – immortality,
not fame, not wealth, but immortality.
I wanted to live on long after my body had perished,
and with sheer conviction I made it a reality.
Tomorrow if I fall asleep, I shall sleep contented,
for my mission will live on galvanizing brave veins.
My only regret is, I never got to raise a family,
it’s the bittersweet price a reformer has to pay.
Abi the person had to be sacrificed,
for Naskar the dream to become a reality.
Anyone who says, they have no regrets,
never dared to live up to their full capacity.
I offered up my youth to lift up the world,
even got dumped, while lost in world building.
My genes might die with me, not my dream –
One day, not long now, whole world will be kin.
not fame, not wealth, but immortality.
I wanted to live on long after my body had perished,
and with sheer conviction I made it a reality.
Tomorrow if I fall asleep, I shall sleep contented,
for my mission will live on galvanizing brave veins.
My only regret is, I never got to raise a family,
it’s the bittersweet price a reformer has to pay.
Abi the person had to be sacrificed,
for Naskar the dream to become a reality.
Anyone who says, they have no regrets,
never dared to live up to their full capacity.
I offered up my youth to lift up the world,
even got dumped, while lost in world building.
My genes might die with me, not my dream –
One day, not long now, whole world will be kin.
November 16, 2024
Knowledge behind Paywall (Open Access Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim: Little Planet on The Prairie
Knowledge aloof from people,
locked shut behind paywall,
bears no significance in society,
holds no worth whatsoever.
That’s why huge chunks of my works,
are accessible freely to the world.
In fact, if I had no bills to pay,
would’ve given away my last miracle word!
Record of light is not proof of light,
Light must be proven by existence alone.
Over a third of my sonnets are available
free, including some of my most potent ones.
Light accessible only to select elites,
is not light, but filth uncivilized.
Paywall is a violation of knowledge,
it vilifies the sanctity of human light.
locked shut behind paywall,
bears no significance in society,
holds no worth whatsoever.
That’s why huge chunks of my works,
are accessible freely to the world.
In fact, if I had no bills to pay,
would’ve given away my last miracle word!
Record of light is not proof of light,
Light must be proven by existence alone.
Over a third of my sonnets are available
free, including some of my most potent ones.
Light accessible only to select elites,
is not light, but filth uncivilized.
Paywall is a violation of knowledge,
it vilifies the sanctity of human light.
November 13, 2024
Neurosonnet 2001 – Abhijit Naskar – Neurosonnets: The Pocket Book of Consciousness (First Drop)
Neurons giveth,
neurons taketh away.
By neurons we forge self,
with neurons we fade away.
Within neurons cosmos comes to life,
within neurons worlds come to end.
Neurons are building blocks of walls,
as well as the instrument of bridges.
There is not one but two cosmos,
one made by nature, another by neurons.
We are the makers of observable reality,
shaped by hopes and biases of our own.
Neurons are the birthplace of God,
Neurons produce all ghosts and goblins.
Life is a concoction of neurochemistry,
Boon and bane are both our own making.
neurons taketh away.
By neurons we forge self,
with neurons we fade away.
Within neurons cosmos comes to life,
within neurons worlds come to end.
Neurons are building blocks of walls,
as well as the instrument of bridges.
There is not one but two cosmos,
one made by nature, another by neurons.
We are the makers of observable reality,
shaped by hopes and biases of our own.
Neurons are the birthplace of God,
Neurons produce all ghosts and goblins.
Life is a concoction of neurochemistry,
Boon and bane are both our own making.
November 12, 2024
Love Thy Hater (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Little Planet on The Prairie
Soul that is kind is soul divine,
Mind segregated is most unholy kind.
Helping the helpless is holiness alive,
Day of the living is day of the divine.
The living never die,
the dead never live.
Body dies, not deeds –
Deeds live, not creed.
My heart that holds Mevlana as brother,
also holds Tom (Aquinas) as bosom buddy.
Many ideas of both are out of date today,
yet both are epitome of heart’s purity.
Make every molecule the home of love,
let no divisive tradition taint your fervor.
Human begins at the end of hate –
Restrain the hate, but love thy hater.
Mind segregated is most unholy kind.
Helping the helpless is holiness alive,
Day of the living is day of the divine.
The living never die,
the dead never live.
Body dies, not deeds –
Deeds live, not creed.
My heart that holds Mevlana as brother,
also holds Tom (Aquinas) as bosom buddy.
Many ideas of both are out of date today,
yet both are epitome of heart’s purity.
Make every molecule the home of love,
let no divisive tradition taint your fervor.
Human begins at the end of hate –
Restrain the hate, but love thy hater.
November 11, 2024
“La diferencia entre mono y humano está en el sentido de inclusividad.” Abhijit Naskar, Generacion Justicia: Día de Los Vivos (Ya Disponible – Naskar Spanish 3 – Now Out)
“La diferencia entre mono y humano está en el sentido de inclusividad.”
“La superstición no es divinidad,
como tampoco la frenología es neurociencia.
La conspiración no es iluminación,
como tampoco la astrología es astrofísica.
La superstición no debe transmitirse como cultura,
los prejuicios no deben transmitirse como herencia.
Si quieres transmitir algo que valga la pena,
transmite coraje, compasión y conciencia.
La ignorancia es inevitable.
La intolerancia es una elección.
Los sesgos son inevitables.
El prejuicio es una elección.
La muerte es inevitable,
La vida es una elección.
La extinción es inevitable,
La existencia es una elección.”
“La superstición no es divinidad,
como tampoco la frenología es neurociencia.
La conspiración no es iluminación,
como tampoco la astrología es astrofísica.
La superstición no debe transmitirse como cultura,
los prejuicios no deben transmitirse como herencia.
Si quieres transmitir algo que valga la pena,
transmite coraje, compasión y conciencia.
La ignorancia es inevitable.
La intolerancia es una elección.
Los sesgos son inevitables.
El prejuicio es una elección.
La muerte es inevitable,
La vida es una elección.
La extinción es inevitable,
La existencia es una elección.”
November 10, 2024
Letter to the Fundamentalist (Sonnet 1800) | Abhijit Naskar | The Humanitarian Dictator
You may be a fundamentalist nut,
but I’m a bigger nut than you.
You are nuts about one religion,
I hold all religions equally true.
You are nuts about one
single religion and culture,
I am nuts about a world full
of religions and cultures.
Problem is not that you believe in myths,
but that honor of myths trumps honor of life.
Every time you put fairytale before people,
you perpetuate a jungle tradition of lies.
You claim truth as one religion’s franchise,
I recognize the good in all walks of faith.
I pity those who claim exclusive prosperity,
True holiness begins at the end of all hate.
but I’m a bigger nut than you.
You are nuts about one religion,
I hold all religions equally true.
You are nuts about one
single religion and culture,
I am nuts about a world full
of religions and cultures.
Problem is not that you believe in myths,
but that honor of myths trumps honor of life.
Every time you put fairytale before people,
you perpetuate a jungle tradition of lies.
You claim truth as one religion’s franchise,
I recognize the good in all walks of faith.
I pity those who claim exclusive prosperity,
True holiness begins at the end of all hate.
“I believe in the right to belief.” Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator
The believer is not to turn atheist,
the atheist is not to turn a believer.
Earth is a big place with room for all,
if only we could make our heart a bit wider!
I believe in the right to belief,
but not as excuse for discrimination.
My holiness has place for all myths,
but not for myths used for division.
My holiness is vast as the sky,
and deep as the ocean –
it has place for every faith,
but no place for intoleration.
the atheist is not to turn a believer.
Earth is a big place with room for all,
if only we could make our heart a bit wider!
I believe in the right to belief,
but not as excuse for discrimination.
My holiness has place for all myths,
but not for myths used for division.
My holiness is vast as the sky,
and deep as the ocean –
it has place for every faith,
but no place for intoleration.
If I Had A Child (Note to Parents on An Inclusive World) | Abhijit Naskar | Little Planet on The Prairie
If I had a child, I wouldn’t teach them a single thing about the culture I was raised in – instead I’ll hand over all the cultures I’ve assimilated throughout my life, so that one day they may grow up to be a whole human being, rather than a puny fragmented ape – so that they may become a large person in a small planet, rather than a small primate in a large world.
