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When one Naskar dies, a thousand Naskars will rise | Abhijit Naskar | Bulletproof Backbone

“Thousand Naskars (The Sonnet)

When one Naskar dies in body,
Thousand Naskars will take his place.
Cowards seek comfort in reincarnation,
While the brave step in to fill the void.

Don’t you dare make a cult of me,
Waiting for yet another second coming!
Reclaim your life from the land of myths,
Wishful inaction is most unbecoming.

Charge up your mind with facts and reason,
Charge up your heart with love and vision.
Backbone alive repels cowardly inaction,
Even if peddled by thousand year tradition.

When one Naskar dies in body,
Thousand Naskars will take his place.
Naskar the person died a long time ago,
What speaks to you is Naskar the oneness.”

Lightyears of Sight | Abhijit Naskar | Tum Dunya Tek Millet

You are the captain,
You are the coxswain,
You are the world’s oar!
You are the catalyst,
You are the analyst,
You are the tether to shore!

You are the time, you are the tide.
You are the vessel of love and light!
You are the space, you are the ship.
You are in a brain, light-years of sight!

I Am Justice Absolute | Abhijit Naskar | Bulletproof Backbone

What do you take me for – some two-bit frozen figurine from the icy-cold world of intellect! Armageddon here! Armageddon above intellect – armageddon above faith – armageddon above law, order and policy!

I am Justice absolute – Jehovah absolute – Jehennem (Hell) absolute! I am Conscience absolute – Christ absolute – Cosmos absolute! I am Harmony absolute – Human absolute – Heaven absolute!

I am the first prophet and the last – I am the keeper of eternity. I am time, I am space – I am the beginning of love, and the obliteration of inhumanity.

Every time this prehistoric world even dreams of tyranny, bearing its political, bureaucratic, legal, or religious badge of authoritarianism, remember who you are. You are brahmanda (cosmos) in a brain – you are the first, second and last coming – you are the one who parted Red Sea – you are but consciousness dawning.

Integration is Happening All Over The World | Abhijit Naskar | Tum Dunya Tek Millet

All said and done, in our headstrong struggle for inclusion, we mustn’t also underestimate everything we have achieved so far as a species. As a matter of fact, we’ve come a long way since our tribal days of division and discrimination. Let me show you how. World’s most beloved poet, Mevlana Rumi, was a muslim – world’s icon of civil rights, MLK, was a black person – world’s greatest inspiration of science, Albert Einstein, was a German Jew – and most recently, as of 2023, PM of UK and VP of US, both are of Indian origin.

So don’t tell me, we’ve achieved nothing – don’t tell me, there is no hope for integration! Integration is happening all over the world, despite the ancient impediments of intolerance and hate. Therefore, the question is not whether integration is possible – real question is, are you a part of that integration, or aren’t you! Our home is planet earth – and here on earth, we all cry the same pain, smile the same joy, and live the same love.

Time is Illusion (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Tum Dunya Tek Millet

Time is a necessary illusion,
forged from the fabric of memory,
meant for adding coherence to life,
so that you’re mindful of your duty.

Body cannot survive in the vacuum of space,
Mind cannot survive in the vacuum of time.
Brain cannot survive in the vacuum of skull,
So it floats about in the fluid of spine.

Memory makes the past, memory makes future,
Memory is the bedrock of the time psyche.
Physical time is irrelevant to the mind,
Mind creates its own domain of temporality.

Time is a myth, that aids us survive.
Master the myth, o divine maker –
Time and tide are born inside!

My Dream is, One World Family, not One World Government | Abhijit Naskar | Tum Dunya Tek Millet

“One World Family (The Sonnet)

My dream is, one world family,
not one world government.
My vision calls for a human world,
beyond the battle of right and left.

Trading Nato for Brics ain’t advancement,
Swapping Sam with Soviet isn’t progress.
If your mistrust of one colonizer
makes you build alliance with another,
it’s not change but recurring regress.

Change is only change when
inhumanity is rejected altogether.
If inhumanity merely changes carrier,
it’s not change but diplomatic disaster.

Alliance after alliance, cult after cult,
Politics over people will destroy the world.
All alliance stem from interest not integration,
Such geopolitical diplomacy will be our castration.”

Final Human (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Radioactive Ruhunium

Only animal I’m afraid of is myself,
When I’m scared, I lose control.
I am the height of violence extreme,
Kept tamed by conscience whole.

I am the maker of all law and order,
I decide what’s right, what’s wrong.
I am a grenade waiting to go off,
At the sight of humanity done wrong.

To the helpless I’m humility incarnate,
To the discriminated I’m love unbound.
To all intolerance I am judgment day,
To paranoid hate I’m piety paramount.

If I don’t bulldoze your castles of prejudice,
Abhijit Vicdansaadet Naskar is not my name.
Till the last ounce of hate is obliterated,
The final human will emerge time and again.

Nonviolence is Nonsense | Abhijit Naskar | Radioactive Ruhunium

Nonviolence is nonsense – or to be more accurate – bookish nonviolence is nonsense. Nonviolence is to injustice, what homeopathy is to illness – it claims all the credit without any of the responsibility. Placebo brings comfort, not change.

Does that mean, violence is the solution? That’s the problem, you see. This prehistoric world has an instinctual affinity to black and white concepts – to binary concepts – and a gigantic blind spot for grey areas. Justice is too grand an exercise to be contained by the primitive dualistic nonsense of violence and nonviolence.

Let me put this into perspective with an example. Bullets are an act of violence, silence is an act of nonviolence – but there is a third option – the option of the slipper.

Slippers are more effective in fighting bugs, than bullets – bullets make martyr of the bugs, slippers put them in their place. When the slippers of a nation’s civilians combine, even the mightiest of tyrant is bound to fall – be it a state head, court judge or law enforcement officer.

Whenever a bunch of bugs turn the courts into a cradle of animal masculinity – whenever a bunch of bugs turn the parliament into a cradle of fundamentalism and bigotry – whenever a bunch of bugs turn the police stations into a cradle of badge-bearing barbarism – grab hold of that household bug-repellent you wear on your feet, and put them to some good, wholesome use. Treat the corrupt and bigoted like your children, and do with them as you would your own child when they go astray.

When your child starts to bully other kids, if you adopt pacifism and pamper them further in the name of nonviolence, instead of taking stringent steps to nip their megalomania in the bud, it’s very much possible, they might grow up to be the next orange-haired terrorist to roam the oval office or the next musky moron who takes pleasure in destroying people’s livelihoods and providing safe haven to hate speech and disinformation to satisfy their giant ego and puny mind.

So, I repeat – pick up the democratic superweapon from under your feet and put it to good use – treat the privileged orangutans like your children and put them in their rightful place, without actually harming them. Your world, your rules – remember that. Slippers are democracy’s first line of defense, bullets it’s last.

No Tolerance for Intolerance | Abhijit Naskar | Tum Dunya Tek Millet

From Karbala to Kurukshetra, from Jerusalem to Chanakkale, light of truth has never submitted to the howling audacity of divisive animality – then why should you? Remember, there is a karbala in each of you, there is a kurukshetra in each of you, there is a jerusalem and chanakkale in each of you. And till you accept defeat out of your own free will, not a force in the world can dampen the daring advances of love and reason.

So, get up – get out – and get lost!

Wanna lead the world? First learn about the world – get so lost in the struggles of each and every people of planet earth, that you forget where you came from altogether – get so lost in the struggles of the people of earth, that for the first time in life you start to breathe as a whole human being – get so lost, that for the first time you see the light of dawn not as a puny slave to puny borders, but as the civilized maker of a civilized world.

Half Freedom | Insan Himalayanoğlu

Only love can bring full freedom, all else brings half freedom. What is half freedom you ask? When in the name of freedom you imprison yourself to one side or sect, everything outside that sect seems evil. For example, fundamentalists choose the side of blind faith, and every act of reason seems like blasphemy – just like cold, sharp-tongue intellectuals choose the side of rationality even at the expense of humanity, and everything illogical seems outdated – or wait, I got a better one – so-called social activists often get so attached to their self-imposed identity of victimhood, that every person with a political, corporate, legal or bureaucratic background seems to appear as devil incarnate. This, my friend, is what I call “half freedom”, which by the way, is far worse than the lack of freedom. And even though it manifests as an act of willful choice, when you get down to it, it’s just plain old rigidity. And if we want to build a truly just, inclusive and progressive society, this hypocritical half-freedom won’t do – what’s needed is whole freedom – a kind of freedom that liberates the mind of all superstition as well as ignorant suspiciousness. It’s time we realize, yelling about justice without using common sense is just as useless as keeping quiet. What this means is that, we gotta come together regardless of our background – the teacher, the scientist, the student, the copper, the politician, the civil servant, the entrepreneur, the economist, the janitor, the construction worker – every single person from every single walk of life must come forward surpassing all suspicious conspiracy, and contribute the best of their capacity in the making of a real civilized world.