Abhijit Naskar's Blog, page 47
June 26, 2023
Justice Beyond Month (Sonnet 1182) | Visvavictor
Pride that ends with the end of June,
is but an episode of looney tunes.
Divergence that dies with April’s wake,
is no inclusion but bark of buffoons.
Black history that ends with the end of February,
is not solidarity but a hashtag cacophony.
Women’s history that ends with the end of March,
is no celebration but a sacrilege of equality.
When AAPI are only visible in the month of May,
It ain’t no visibility but a mockery of life.
When nativeness is welcome till October 15th,
It ain’t integration but desecration of light.
Awareness is justice when it reduces prejudice.
But one that’s trendy only in specific months,
is no awareness but a different kind of malice.
Acceptance is awareness, awareness is life.
100 calendars fall short to celebrate mindlight.
is but an episode of looney tunes.
Divergence that dies with April’s wake,
is no inclusion but bark of buffoons.
Black history that ends with the end of February,
is not solidarity but a hashtag cacophony.
Women’s history that ends with the end of March,
is no celebration but a sacrilege of equality.
When AAPI are only visible in the month of May,
It ain’t no visibility but a mockery of life.
When nativeness is welcome till October 15th,
It ain’t integration but desecration of light.
Awareness is justice when it reduces prejudice.
But one that’s trendy only in specific months,
is no awareness but a different kind of malice.
Acceptance is awareness, awareness is life.
100 calendars fall short to celebrate mindlight.
June 23, 2023
Sonnet 1178 (On Titanic Sub Search-and-Rescue) | Visvavictor
“Sonnet 1178
Five little rich tourists sink in a sub,
Wallets open without limit on a search-n-rescue op.
A 1000 migrants die each year tryna cross the sea,
Borders tighten in sheer fear with no show of mercy.
People are only worth saving
if their savings is super healthy.
50 Shades would be a Hitchcock film
if the sicko had no money.
Empathy is a far cry, life is never the issue.
While next-door-neighbor cries of hunger,
Netflix wets more tissue.”
“Ukraine is worth aiding, but not Afghanistan,
Tourists are worth saving, but not refugees.
Loss of any life is indeed a moment of tragedy,
Then why this double-standard and hypocrisy!”
Five little rich tourists sink in a sub,
Wallets open without limit on a search-n-rescue op.
A 1000 migrants die each year tryna cross the sea,
Borders tighten in sheer fear with no show of mercy.
People are only worth saving
if their savings is super healthy.
50 Shades would be a Hitchcock film
if the sicko had no money.
Empathy is a far cry, life is never the issue.
While next-door-neighbor cries of hunger,
Netflix wets more tissue.”
“Ukraine is worth aiding, but not Afghanistan,
Tourists are worth saving, but not refugees.
Loss of any life is indeed a moment of tragedy,
Then why this double-standard and hypocrisy!”
June 21, 2023
End of Fear (Sonnet 1172) | Visvavictor
Where the end of fear ends all barrier,
Where biases no longer run amok,
Where end of assumption sets forth ascension,
Where heritage no more wreaks havoc,
Where the head is without bent,
and the heart is never skint,
Where the spine is without dent,
and the eyes are without squint,
Where Christian, Muslim, Sikh ‘n Jew,
sit and share a cup of stew,
Where Buddhist, Atheist, Jain, Hindu,
live and laugh as one life crew,
There beyond, where sentience lets no storm to brew,
Out of the fossil, into the fervor, I shall meet you.
Where biases no longer run amok,
Where end of assumption sets forth ascension,
Where heritage no more wreaks havoc,
Where the head is without bent,
and the heart is never skint,
Where the spine is without dent,
and the eyes are without squint,
Where Christian, Muslim, Sikh ‘n Jew,
sit and share a cup of stew,
Where Buddhist, Atheist, Jain, Hindu,
live and laugh as one life crew,
There beyond, where sentience lets no storm to brew,
Out of the fossil, into the fervor, I shall meet you.
June 20, 2023
Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 49
I am one humanity,
Not one human being.
I am life, I am justice,
I am sentience expanding.
I live through your hands,
My motion lies in your feet.
To find me, look in the mirror,
For I am oneness most naive.
Family is world to most,
To me the world is family.
Your triumph is my triumph,
Your suffering is my tragedy.
We are not people, but vessels of possibility.
Peace, love, all is possible, when we take responsibility.
Not one human being.
I am life, I am justice,
I am sentience expanding.
I live through your hands,
My motion lies in your feet.
To find me, look in the mirror,
For I am oneness most naive.
Family is world to most,
To me the world is family.
Your triumph is my triumph,
Your suffering is my tragedy.
We are not people, but vessels of possibility.
Peace, love, all is possible, when we take responsibility.
Kainat Calling (The Sonnet) | Visvavictor
I’ll take your leave now,
Kainat is calling –
Ain’t gonna stay amidst
your narrowness no more.
You conquered moon,
you’ll conquer mars,
yet what’s the point,
when your heart is
still beastly sore!
Break your sleep, o drowsy doofus,
Wake up to the auspicious joyville!
Where love and light are supreme law,
Wake up to that valley of joy and zeal!
Everyday is Christmas there,
Everyday is Ramadan and Juneteenth.
Stay in your archaic muck if you like,
I gotta go now, Kainat calling!
Kainat is calling –
Ain’t gonna stay amidst
your narrowness no more.
You conquered moon,
you’ll conquer mars,
yet what’s the point,
when your heart is
still beastly sore!
Break your sleep, o drowsy doofus,
Wake up to the auspicious joyville!
Where love and light are supreme law,
Wake up to that valley of joy and zeal!
Everyday is Christmas there,
Everyday is Ramadan and Juneteenth.
Stay in your archaic muck if you like,
I gotta go now, Kainat calling!
Political ideologies are not unlike technological inventions | Visvavictor
Political ideologies are not unlike technological inventions – both have expiry dates. Take the first electric bulb for example. When electric filament bulb came into existence it turned gas lamps obsolete – but then power efficient led bulb came into the scene, which turned filament bulbs obsolete. Likewise, back in the days when world conquest was all the craze, nationalism was the fire that united the dominated souls of the invaded lands to stand up to their invaders. But today when the notion of invasion is no longer the norm, and a sense of global oneness is on the rise, nationalism is no longer cool – it is obsolete, inane, and downright prehistoric. Today, it’s the fire of integration that lights the world, not tribe, heritage and tradition.
No ideology is ideal, no ideology is ultimate. So, focus on ascension, not allegiance. Evolution is life, rigidity is death – the wheel just keeps turning – monarchy replaced by democracy, democracy replaced by meritocracy – fundamentalism replaced by interfaith, interfaith replaced by freethought – church replaced by state, state replaced by civic duty – capitalism replaced by socialism, socialism replaced by humanitarianism. Countries become cities, cities become neighborhoods, neighborhoods become family – that’s real upward mobility – that’s civilization.
No ideology is ideal, no ideology is ultimate. So, focus on ascension, not allegiance. Evolution is life, rigidity is death – the wheel just keeps turning – monarchy replaced by democracy, democracy replaced by meritocracy – fundamentalism replaced by interfaith, interfaith replaced by freethought – church replaced by state, state replaced by civic duty – capitalism replaced by socialism, socialism replaced by humanitarianism. Countries become cities, cities become neighborhoods, neighborhoods become family – that’s real upward mobility – that’s civilization.
June 19, 2023
Rowdy Scientist Sonnet | Rowdy Scientist
Science is neither boastful nor bashful,
Science stands dutybound, forever mindful.
Science gives the final answer as a ray of hope,
With all avenues exhausted to the last granule.
Science is neither defensive nor offensive,
Science can’t afford such primitive prerogative.
Transcending binary norms science acts whole,
Defying the comfort of all corrosive narrative.
Science is slave to none, science enslaves none,
Science blooms from reason, endorsing curiosity.
But don’t ever confuse curiosity with cynicism,
Curiosity brings understanding, cynicism apathy.
Average scientists seek answers,
Great scientist seeks questions.
Submissive scientists chase solutions,
I’m a Rowdy Scientist, give me problems!
Science stands dutybound, forever mindful.
Science gives the final answer as a ray of hope,
With all avenues exhausted to the last granule.
Science is neither defensive nor offensive,
Science can’t afford such primitive prerogative.
Transcending binary norms science acts whole,
Defying the comfort of all corrosive narrative.
Science is slave to none, science enslaves none,
Science blooms from reason, endorsing curiosity.
But don’t ever confuse curiosity with cynicism,
Curiosity brings understanding, cynicism apathy.
Average scientists seek answers,
Great scientist seeks questions.
Submissive scientists chase solutions,
I’m a Rowdy Scientist, give me problems!
June 18, 2023
Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 56
Seni seviyorum be insan!
It’s okay if you don’t get a word I say.
You won’t remember the words anyway,
It’s the sentiment that makes the way.
There is a bridge from my heart to yours,
But you won’t fathom it with all the words.
Oneness is a bridge revealed in silence,
Can you hear the pitter-patter of teardrops!
If you can’t hear the teardrops of a warzone,
All your philosophies are basically useless.
If we can’t light up the forgotten corners,
What’s the point in discovering photoelectric effect!
What’s the point of all these fancy words and doohickeys,
If human emotion sinks to the bottom of our priorities!
It’s okay if you don’t get a word I say.
You won’t remember the words anyway,
It’s the sentiment that makes the way.
There is a bridge from my heart to yours,
But you won’t fathom it with all the words.
Oneness is a bridge revealed in silence,
Can you hear the pitter-patter of teardrops!
If you can’t hear the teardrops of a warzone,
All your philosophies are basically useless.
If we can’t light up the forgotten corners,
What’s the point in discovering photoelectric effect!
What’s the point of all these fancy words and doohickeys,
If human emotion sinks to the bottom of our priorities!
June 16, 2023
Women in Power (The Sonnet) | Visvavictor
Women in power is power used best,
Men in power means power makes a mess.
For the world to become gender-neutral,
First it’s gotta become matriarchal.
Thereafter gender will bear no significance,
Only the capable shall dawn the pedestal.
In patriarchy war and tyranny are the norm,
While peace and equality are exception.
In matriarchy synergy is the norm,
While shallowness is the exception.
Before the world is equalized,
first it’s gotta be dehypnotized.
And no world is ever dehypnotized till
the paradigm is mended by the marginalized.
Men in power means power makes a mess.
For the world to become gender-neutral,
First it’s gotta become matriarchal.
Thereafter gender will bear no significance,
Only the capable shall dawn the pedestal.
In patriarchy war and tyranny are the norm,
While peace and equality are exception.
In matriarchy synergy is the norm,
While shallowness is the exception.
Before the world is equalized,
first it’s gotta be dehypnotized.
And no world is ever dehypnotized till
the paradigm is mended by the marginalized.
June 12, 2023
America, A Dysfunctional Democracy | Visvavictor
Sociologically speaking, American democracy is the perfect specimen of a dysfunctional democracy. When a supremacist president incites racist hate and terrorist violence, out of bigotry and boneheadedness, his stoneage supporters consider it a matter of pride, but when an egalitarian president so much as mispronounces a few words due to his medical stammer, he is deemed incompetent by those people. Which only goes to show, no matter how much a nation tries to right the wrongs of its inhuman origin, there will always be some people who’d consider those inhumanities as their proud heritage, and would go to any length to maintain those customs and beliefs as such. And this is not an American phenomenon, it’s a worldwide phenomenon – and everywhere it manifests under the same banner of tradition, heritage and nationalism.
That is why I say to you – until we oust every last trace of nationalism from every corner of this world, we shall never in a million years have a genuinely integrated and upward-moving society. Either nationalism or humanity, you cannot have both – either borders or peace, you cannot have both – either guns or children, you cannot have both – either heritage or history, you cannot have both.
If history comes as a blow to your heritage, then by all means, live in your bubble – but do so as a prehistoric ape disconnected from the civilizing world. You cannot call yourself a civilized human and at the same time refuse to acknowledge human suffering. Your uncivilization may be your prerogative, but before you turn that uncivilization into the norm, you shall find a hundred MLKs, Baldwins, Mayas and Naskars standing as obstacle to your insanity.
That is why I say to you – until we oust every last trace of nationalism from every corner of this world, we shall never in a million years have a genuinely integrated and upward-moving society. Either nationalism or humanity, you cannot have both – either borders or peace, you cannot have both – either guns or children, you cannot have both – either heritage or history, you cannot have both.
If history comes as a blow to your heritage, then by all means, live in your bubble – but do so as a prehistoric ape disconnected from the civilizing world. You cannot call yourself a civilized human and at the same time refuse to acknowledge human suffering. Your uncivilization may be your prerogative, but before you turn that uncivilization into the norm, you shall find a hundred MLKs, Baldwins, Mayas and Naskars standing as obstacle to your insanity.
