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Military is Legal Terrorism (Ceasefire Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Yaralardan Yangın Doğar

Any planet that confuses guns
with gallantry is a planet of apes.
Prioritizing military over education,
we only build a world full of terrorists.

Military is just legal terrorism,
To fathom this you gotta be human.
What do monkeys know of peace and love,
When guns are their emblem of patriotism!

We don’t need civilian disarmament,
We need absolute universal disarmament.
Only a worldwide ban on firearms production,
Can facilitate a paradigm of peaceful coexistence.

Let’s see which nation has the heart and backbone,
To legislate absolute ban on firearms manufacture!
Let’s see who are the first civilized people,
Let’s see which nation is the first peacemaker!

What’s the point of one ceasefire,
Let’s pull the plug on all war.
Let’s disband all military, and siphon
those funds to housing, education and healthcare.

Doctor Not Butcher (Medical Anthem Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Doctor Not Butcher

“Medicine means Mercy – Empathy – Dare – Integrity – Care – Ingenuity – Nobility – and Ethics, or it can mean Mechanical, Egotistical, Dehumanizing, Indifferent, Cold, Insensitive, Nincompoop Elitist. You decide what you practice, and your decision will determine what you are – a doctor or a butcher!”

“Doctor Not Butcher
(Medical Anthem Sonnet)

We are the Doctors,
Our worship is to the ailing.
We don’t bow to politicians,
Nor to bureaucratic bullying.

Service to the sick
is service to the divine.
There is no greater divinity,
than being a human lifeline.

We don’t recognize borders,
We don’t recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.

Dead doctor postpones death,
Living doctor improves life.
While butcher doctors monetize malady,
To empower life, real doctors strive.”

Language and Ideology | Abhijit Naskar | Insan Himalayanoğlu

Language and ideology are not the same thing. Sociology is a language, socialism is an ideology – economics is a language, capitalism is an ideology. Language is an act of communication, ideology is an act of miscommunication. Focus on the language, not the ideology. Because no matter how perfect an ideology appears to be, sooner or later all ideology gets corrupt, particularly because ideology thrives on rigidity – whereas all languages evolve with time at a simple, natural, and almost seamless pace, with no reliance on allegiance and popularity.

Mucize Mülteci (Divine Refugee Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Yaralardan Yangın Doğar

Call me misafir, call me göçmen,
This heart of mine is always migrant.
Şan ve şöhrete ben muhtaç değilim,
Benim derdim dünya, dünya dermanım.

Call me gypsy, or call me refugee,
This heart of mine is always migrant.
I’ve got no use for silicon or gold,
World is my bane, world, my ointment.

In Sanskrit I am Abhijit,
In English I am Victor.
In Arabic I am Ghalib,
In History I am Reformer.

Call me whatever you like,
Befitting your culture.
I have no reservations,
Above my human nature.

So many tongues, as many names –
Some call agua, some call pani.
Conquer the tongue, spirit is the same –
Some dub it divine, I live as humanity.

Kral Fakir (Servant King Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Yaralardan Yangın Doğar

“Burn my books, and go lift the world! Let me live in your blood, not in books. Yak benim her kitabımı, ve git – insanlara yardım et! Kitaplarda değil, kanında tut beni.”

“Kral Fakir (Servant King Sonnet)

İnsanı seven herkes resul,
Yardım eden herkes kraldır.
Bencil servet hayvanlara mübarek,
İnsan ben, kimliğim kral fakir.

Every human who loves a human is apostle,
Every human who helps a human is king.
Animals may feast on selfish luxury,
As for me, I am a servant king.

King is the servant,
Servant is king.
Being is the harvest,
Harvest is the being.

Life lived for self is goods,
Life lived for others is gift.
Time spent on self is product,
Time spent on others is present.

You can spend thousands on the shallow,
Still it won’t be enough to fill their eyes.
Spend a single wise cent on someone in need,
It’ll fill their heart with new vigor of life.”

Mirror Mind (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | 300 Limericks of Inclusion

Sentience of a distant space,
I stand at your starry doorstep.
Born of carbon this simple life,
I come bearing a thread of love lace.

When will I meet my mirror mind,
When will I meet a mirror of kind!
Will all this struggle count for nothing,
Coming all this way, how can I alight!

I dreamt of you in my fiercest nights,
I craved for you in my suffering frights.
I ached for you on my brightest flights,
I trekked the galaxy seeking your sight.

Yet I remain ever so thirsty,
to drench in your monsoon smile.
When will I come to part with
this horrific state of divide!

Memo to The States of Earth | Abhijit Naskar | Bulletproof Backbone

All through time, the conquerors have been writing history. But no more! The conquerors are no longer the supreme emperor of the narrative, even if all the spineless governments take their side. Because guess what – society is no longer a property of the state. You ask us to vaccinate, we shall vaccinate – you ask us to follow traffic rules, we shall follow traffic rules – you ask us to file our taxes, we shall file our taxes – because that’s the civilized thing to do. But if you ask us to support your rich moron of a friend in his exploits of conquest and domination, you shall not have a government to begin with. Remember that.

Plenty Room for All (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Either Right or Human

Turban, Hijab, Habit or Tuxedo,
Wear whatever feels like second skin.
No need to justify to judgmental apes,
Life’s too short to be wasted on fiends.

Let them just fade away,
as vestigials of evolution.
Savagery requires treatment,
not serious consideration.

To be treated as a human being,
One must behave as human being.
Faith, intellect, both are poison,
If the heart remains ever so mean.

There’s plenty room for all thoughts,
No matter the measures of books ‘n brain.
Fiction, reason, all are welcome,
On my earth where but love reigns.

The King (A Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Either Right or Human

Today I salute you,
For today you are king,
Ruler of the entire earth,
One without a living being.

My congratulations, your majesty,
On your glorious accomplishment!
Fate worse than a defeated king
is a king without subjects.

I got buried in the wreck,
So did my friends and family.
But still I salute you my king,
On your unparalleled victory.

I salute you from my grave,
For today you are king,
Ruler of a million lands,
Yet still, ruler of nothing!

Abhijit Naskar Statement on Hamas (October 10th, 2023)

When Israel strikes, it’s “national security” – when Palestine strikes back, it’s “terrorism”. Just like over two hundred years ago when native americans resisted their homeland being stolen, it was called “Indian Attack”. Or like over a hundred years ago when Indian soldiers in the British Army revolted against the empire, in defense of their homeland, it was called “Sepoy Mutiny”.

The narrative never changes – when the colonizer terrorizes the world, it’s given glorious sounding names like “exploration” and “conquest”, but if the oppressed so much as utters a word in resistance, it is branded as attack, mutiny and terrorism – so that, the real terrorists can keep on colonizing as the self-appointed ruler of land, life and morality, without ever being held accountable for violating the rights of what they deem second rate lifeforms, such as the arabs, indians, latinos and so on.

After all this, some apes will still only be interested in one stupid question. Do I support Hamas? To which I say this. Until you’ve spent a lifetime under an oppressive regime, you are not qualified to ask that question. An ape can ask anything its puny brain fancies, but it’s up to the human to decide whether the ape is worthy of a response. What do you think, by the way – colonizers can just keep coming as they please, to wipe their filthy feet on us like doormat, and we should do nothing – just stay quiet! For creatures who call themselves civilized, you guys have a weird sense of morality.

Yet all these might not get through your thick binary skull, so let me put it to you bluntly.

I don’t stand with Hamas, I am Hamas, just like, I don’t stand with Ukraine, I am Ukraine. Russia stops fighting, war ends – Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Israel ends invasion, war ends – Palestine ends resistance, Palestine ends.

However, I do have one problem here. Why do civilians have to die, if that is indeed the case – which I have no way of confirming, because news reports are not like reputed scientific data, that a scientist can naively trust. During humankind’s gravest conflicts news outlets have always peddled a narrative benefiting the occupier and demonizing the resistance, either consciously or subconsciously. So never go by news reports, particularly on exception circumstances like this.

No matter the cause, no civilian must die, that is my one unimpeachable law. But the hard and horrific fact of the matter is, only the occupier can put an end to the death and destruction peacefully – the resistance does not have that luxury.