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White Man, Apex Predator of Earth (Sonnets 2399-2400) – Abhijit Naskar, When Calls The Kainat

You know how the dinosaurs went extinct – they committed suicide when they saw the white man coming. They said to themselves, clearly white men are the apex predator of earth, so there’s no point of us being!

Asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs, caucasteroids wiped out civilizations. Colonialism was a mass extinction event, yet no textbook has the spine to bear the burden.

You demonize hitler for his measly 6m white body count!

Americas were radiant with life, love and wonder, then columbus happened, and population dropped 90%, bengal had the world’s finest silk industry, then churchill happened, and industry collapsed, 4 million starved to death, millions massacred across india, like australia, like leopold-infestation in congo.

Everywhere the white man has laid his eyes on, plague, famine and massacre has followed, and they had the gall to send missionaries to the south – ubuntu, advaita, aztecs and mayans, each could eat eurotheologies for breakfast and still have room for a 50 course meal.

In a way we should be thanking the cannibals, they were doing humanity great service, if only the africans, indians, native americans, aboriginal australians had done the same, earth would have been spared the brutalest extinction event in the history of life.

“Earth is a planet of paradoxes.” Abhijit Naskar, When Calls The Kainat

I don’t write for sheep, cows, monkeys and donkeys, who comply with customs of prejudice-n-patriotism, I write for the humans who can love their neighbor, defying state propaganda and cultural validation.

Earth is a planet of paradoxes, in the west the most criminal institution is considered most holy, in the east the most polluted river is considered most sacred – at the same time, some of the poorest nations are most humane, while the superpowers reek of prejudice and persecution.

Stand Human Anyway (Sonnet 2262) – Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

If Jesus didn’t exist,
Moses didn’t exist,
Mohammed didn’t exist,
Vyas and Sid didn’t exist,
I’ll still stand just as divine,
just as alive, just as human.

If the bible didn’t exist,
koran didn’t exist,
torah didn’t exist,
and vedas didn’t exist,
I’ll still stand just as sacred,
just as aware, just as human.

If I didn’t exist, my writings didn’t exist,
stand human anyway, within you is the ore.
Don’t outsource, you are the source,
feet rooted in soil, not shackled in folklore.

I Exist for I Dissolve in All (Sonnet 2265) – Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

My brain is multilingual,
my heart is multicultural,
my life is multidimensional,
I exist for I dissolve in all.

You barely speak one language,
ramble doctrines from one dead book,
can’t see beyond the customs of your tribe,
yet you say, your truth is the cosmic truth!

Fanaticism is compensation for insecurity,
supremacy is compensation for inferiority.
Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets,
half a thousand limericks, half a thousand
free verse poems, yet I still say, I’m incomplete.

Greeks did not invent philosophy (Educating the Educators, Sonnet 2281) – Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Greeks did not invent philosophy,
philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa,
Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier,

not as some elitist discipline, but as everyday way of life,
later the europeans contributed their puny drop in the ocean,
but of course, the myth of europe as the origin of philosophy
goes deceptively well with the whitewashed history of earth.

Maps of the world are whitewashed,
history of the world is whitewashed,
ethics of the world are whitewashed,
knowledge of the world is whitewashed.

No wisdom is flawless ‘n absolute, ancient or modern,
but the point is, enlightenment and civilization
did not originate in europe, they were born of
the lands colonially categorized as uncivilized.

Educating White People (Sonnet 2272) – Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

The average colored person is ten times
smarter, wiser, braver, and stronger,
than most white people, not because
we are genetically superior,

but because, when an entire planet
is rigged in favor of white colonials
over the black, the brown, the latino,
arab, indian, chinese, turk, and what not,
we have to be exceptional to survive.

White people can be mediocre,
and still respected, glorified even,
but rest of us have to be Ramanujans,
Rumis, Naskars, just to be regarded as human.

Most of the world’s geniuses are non-whites,
not because it’s genetic, but because, like
white people inherit blonde hair and blue eyes,
or daddy’s emeralds, we inherit generational
persecution, and any brain forced to endure
persecution as daily chore, becomes a powerhouse
of apparently supernatural mental faculties.

When Convention is Contaminated – Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Brain cannot survive the vacuum of space, mind cannot survive the vacuum of time – so the body produces spinal fluid for the brain to float, and the brain produces beliefs for the mind to survive. But while the immune system keeps the spinal fluid sterilized of infection without conscious intervention, brain does nothing to keep beliefs sterilized of prejudice, unless you make it a habit to question convention.

Choose to fight physical infection or not, your body will do it for you, but as for psychological contaminations, you have to fight them yourself – the faculties are already carved in your brain circuits, but you have to be willing to use them, defying the comforting fantasies of convention, that’s how an ape evolves into human.

How to Tell A Human (Naskar Test) – Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

How to tell a human from ape, when both look the same?

Look for the creature that considers everyone outside their religion a heathen, and everyone outside their culture a heretic – that’s a textbook ape.

Now look for the being that finds the same human spirit in every culture, religion and nation – that right there, is a rare human specimen.

How to tell a human from robot, when both look the same?

Look for the contraption that considers everything outside logic, without value – that’s a lifeless robot.

Look for the soul that knows when to, and when not to, apply logic in life and society – that’s a living human.

We Are Freedom Fighters (Sonnet 2260) – Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Right to leave religion is just
as fundamental as right to religion.
Freedom of dress is just
as important as freedom of the press.

Freedom to breastfeed without shame
is just as sacred as freedom to pray.
Freedom to choose not to have child
is just as respectable as motherhood.

Freedom to love outside tradition
is just as divine as jesus on the mount.
Freedom to dream across color and collar
is just as elemental as drinking water.

Any halfwit can write Declaration of Independence,
while denying people’s rights behind closed doors.
My Declaration of World Independence is this,
rights of another only enhance my own.

“Planet earth is a planet of vegetables.” Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Vegetables must be washed and cooked, to eliminate harmful bacteria ‘n parasites, and bring out their true nutrition – mind must be washed in compassion, and cooked in the fire of reason, to eliminate harmful biases and prejudice, and achieve our true capacity for life.

Planet earth is a planet of vegetables,
don’t let looks and suits fool you.
Only sentient beings are heathen rebels,
alive enough to question vegetable truth.