Abhijit Naskar's Blog, page 66
July 12, 2022
This is how we make all lives matter (The Sonnet) | Handbook of Hatebusting
Wherever a black life is shot of suspicion,
I am that black life that didn’t matter.
Wherever a woman is forced to remain pregnant,
I am that woman who doesn’t matter.
Wherever a muslim is presumed terrorist,
I am that muslim who doesn’t matter.
Wherever a queer life is persecuted,
I am that queer who doesn’t matter.
Standing up to cannibalism requires,
No exclusive background and identity.
All that matters is that you are human,
Only requirement of justice is humanity.
This is how we make all lives matter, all lives free.
Injustice on anyone anywhere is injustice on me.
I am that black life that didn’t matter.
Wherever a woman is forced to remain pregnant,
I am that woman who doesn’t matter.
Wherever a muslim is presumed terrorist,
I am that muslim who doesn’t matter.
Wherever a queer life is persecuted,
I am that queer who doesn’t matter.
Standing up to cannibalism requires,
No exclusive background and identity.
All that matters is that you are human,
Only requirement of justice is humanity.
This is how we make all lives matter, all lives free.
Injustice on anyone anywhere is injustice on me.
July 11, 2022
Ethics and Songwriting (The Sonnet) | Amantes Assemble
I wish I could write music,
For one song is worth ten sonnets.
One sonnet is worth ten essays,
One essay is worth ten speeches.
That’s why I have respect for those,
Singers who do their own writing.
While I pity the empty entertainers,
Who do nothing but counterfeiting.
It’s okay if you sing someone’s song,
At least make way for equal recognition.
Exploiting talent ’cause they’re struggling,
Is fundamentally a human rights violation.
Every industry lacks ethics in its story of origin.
It’s time we right the wrongs and get humanizing.
For one song is worth ten sonnets.
One sonnet is worth ten essays,
One essay is worth ten speeches.
That’s why I have respect for those,
Singers who do their own writing.
While I pity the empty entertainers,
Who do nothing but counterfeiting.
It’s okay if you sing someone’s song,
At least make way for equal recognition.
Exploiting talent ’cause they’re struggling,
Is fundamentally a human rights violation.
Every industry lacks ethics in its story of origin.
It’s time we right the wrongs and get humanizing.
World is My Family (The Sonnet) | Handbook of Hatebusting
Family is the world to everybody,
But to me the world is my family.
In the life of a true human,
Raising a wall is but blasphemy.
If the world is Juliet, I’m her Romeo,
If the world is Romeo, I’m his Juliet.
Amidst the storms of hate and hurt,
I am but an anchor of love and lenience.
I’ll hide the world in my heart if necessary,
To provide sanctuary is the heart’s purpose.
The struggle of this human will continue,
Till all drives of hate are memories of the past.
So I say again, my world is my responsibility.
Beware my dear bigots, I’m injurious to inhumanity!
“Tüm Dünya Ailemdır
(Küresel Vatandaş Şiiri)
Herkes için ailesi dünyadır
Ama benim için tüm dünya ailemdır.
Çünkü bir gerçek insanın hayatında,
Her duvar sadece kötü bir bedduadır.
Dünya Leyla ise ben sarhoş Mecnunum,
Eğer dünya mecnunsa ben leylayım.
Nefret fırtınalarının ortasında,
Ben sadece aşkın çapasıyım.
Gerekirse dünyayı kalbimde saklayacağım,
Kalbin amacı evsizler için bir ev olmaktır.
Mücadele edeceğim, savaşacağım, ama,
Ailemi bırakmayacağım son nefesime kadar.
Tekrar diyorum, dünya benim sorumluluk benim.
Bağnazlar dikkat, sağlığına çok zararlıyım.”
But to me the world is my family.
In the life of a true human,
Raising a wall is but blasphemy.
If the world is Juliet, I’m her Romeo,
If the world is Romeo, I’m his Juliet.
Amidst the storms of hate and hurt,
I am but an anchor of love and lenience.
I’ll hide the world in my heart if necessary,
To provide sanctuary is the heart’s purpose.
The struggle of this human will continue,
Till all drives of hate are memories of the past.
So I say again, my world is my responsibility.
Beware my dear bigots, I’m injurious to inhumanity!
“Tüm Dünya Ailemdır
(Küresel Vatandaş Şiiri)
Herkes için ailesi dünyadır
Ama benim için tüm dünya ailemdır.
Çünkü bir gerçek insanın hayatında,
Her duvar sadece kötü bir bedduadır.
Dünya Leyla ise ben sarhoş Mecnunum,
Eğer dünya mecnunsa ben leylayım.
Nefret fırtınalarının ortasında,
Ben sadece aşkın çapasıyım.
Gerekirse dünyayı kalbimde saklayacağım,
Kalbin amacı evsizler için bir ev olmaktır.
Mücadele edeceğim, savaşacağım, ama,
Ailemi bırakmayacağım son nefesime kadar.
Tekrar diyorum, dünya benim sorumluluk benim.
Bağnazlar dikkat, sağlığına çok zararlıyım.”
July 9, 2022
Amor Apocalypse (An Excerpt)
Amor Apocalypse is headed our way,
Now that Roe vs Wade is overturned.
Love is where the scrotum-brain scotus,
Will lay next their filthy hand.
First they came for our choice,
Then they’ll come for our love.
Soon they’ll go for good old lynching,
Land of the free will be land of the shrubs.
Straight and queer are products of a bipolar world,
In the sanctuary of love there’s no straight, no queer.
In love’s domain queer is straight, straight is queer,
A heart full of love and light is radiantly nonpolar.
I say this with all my humility,
To the fundamentalists particularly.
This is not meant for those of faith,
Who never claim ideological supremacy.
What do the dumbbells of bible know,
About the bold serendipities of love!
What do the captives of koran know,
About the welcoming language of the dove!
What do the vultures of vedas know,
About the elimination of assumption!
What do the militants of atheism know,
About the sweetness of assimilation!
I learnt my religion on the streets,
Like Jesus, Gautama, Shams and Shankara.
Given the choice between dogma and love,
The human always chooses love over dogma.
Love finds new meaning in every age,
Each amplifies the glory of the last one.
Those who fear expansion out of insecurity,
Deserve only pity not serious consideration.
But beware o lovers, hate not those,
Who stand as obstacle in your love.
Lovers are born to conquer hate and fear,
To reciprocate them is to dishonor love.
Now that Roe vs Wade is overturned.
Love is where the scrotum-brain scotus,
Will lay next their filthy hand.
First they came for our choice,
Then they’ll come for our love.
Soon they’ll go for good old lynching,
Land of the free will be land of the shrubs.
Straight and queer are products of a bipolar world,
In the sanctuary of love there’s no straight, no queer.
In love’s domain queer is straight, straight is queer,
A heart full of love and light is radiantly nonpolar.
I say this with all my humility,
To the fundamentalists particularly.
This is not meant for those of faith,
Who never claim ideological supremacy.
What do the dumbbells of bible know,
About the bold serendipities of love!
What do the captives of koran know,
About the welcoming language of the dove!
What do the vultures of vedas know,
About the elimination of assumption!
What do the militants of atheism know,
About the sweetness of assimilation!
I learnt my religion on the streets,
Like Jesus, Gautama, Shams and Shankara.
Given the choice between dogma and love,
The human always chooses love over dogma.
Love finds new meaning in every age,
Each amplifies the glory of the last one.
Those who fear expansion out of insecurity,
Deserve only pity not serious consideration.
But beware o lovers, hate not those,
Who stand as obstacle in your love.
Lovers are born to conquer hate and fear,
To reciprocate them is to dishonor love.
July 7, 2022
Disparity, Education and Economy | Handbook of Hatebusting
Every dollar spent on luxury is a dollar of disparity. Citizens of earth could force big tech to pay their employees fair wages tomorrow, if they just stop buying their fancy, overpriced products and go for humbler alternatives unless the companies bring down their disparities in salary.
The CEO may enjoy certain benefits of their position, but not until those working at the bottom can afford the fundamentals of life for their family. I’ll say it to you plainly. An employee wronged is a company wronged.
You see, trying to build a disparity-free economy pursuing revenue is like trying to achieve pregnancy through vasectomy. So long as greed drives the economy, it’s not economy, but catastrophe. So long as greed drives the industries, it’s not industrialization, it is vandalization.
Ambition to climb the ladder of status so that you could be on the affluent side of disparity, is no ambition of a civilized human, it’s the ambition of a caveman. So, before you pursue an ambition in life, educate yourself on a civilized definition of ambition.
Yet the situation in our world is so pathetic that that’s exactly the kind of ambition educational institutes sell. Schools and universities don’t teach you to build a civilized society free from disparity, they teach you clever tactics to be on the affluent side of disparity. This is not education, this is castration.
Concern for the society should be the bedrock of education – collective welfare should be the bedrock of economy – if not, we might as well start living as hobos on the streets, because with greed as the driving principle of education and economy, sooner or later all of us will end up on the streets.
The CEO may enjoy certain benefits of their position, but not until those working at the bottom can afford the fundamentals of life for their family. I’ll say it to you plainly. An employee wronged is a company wronged.
You see, trying to build a disparity-free economy pursuing revenue is like trying to achieve pregnancy through vasectomy. So long as greed drives the economy, it’s not economy, but catastrophe. So long as greed drives the industries, it’s not industrialization, it is vandalization.
Ambition to climb the ladder of status so that you could be on the affluent side of disparity, is no ambition of a civilized human, it’s the ambition of a caveman. So, before you pursue an ambition in life, educate yourself on a civilized definition of ambition.
Yet the situation in our world is so pathetic that that’s exactly the kind of ambition educational institutes sell. Schools and universities don’t teach you to build a civilized society free from disparity, they teach you clever tactics to be on the affluent side of disparity. This is not education, this is castration.
Concern for the society should be the bedrock of education – collective welfare should be the bedrock of economy – if not, we might as well start living as hobos on the streets, because with greed as the driving principle of education and economy, sooner or later all of us will end up on the streets.
July 6, 2022
Fortune Without Love (The Sonnet) | Sermon of Sustainability
You buy a car for transport, not to live at the gas station. Likewise, you earn money to access essentials, not to live at the shopping mall.
Fortune without love is sheer curse,
For life’s true blessing is love alone.
Live to love and love to live,
With this as motto all good is honed.
They say you can’t live on love alone,
And indeed it’s true to its factual core.
But green of dollar without green of heart,
Grows on us like toxic mold.
Too much of dollar can kill a person,
Just like too little causes starvation.
Use money like you use your car,
To go places, not to live at the gas station.
Put love and life above all else.
You’ll know what’s sense, what’s nonsense.
Fortune without love is sheer curse,
For life’s true blessing is love alone.
Live to love and love to live,
With this as motto all good is honed.
They say you can’t live on love alone,
And indeed it’s true to its factual core.
But green of dollar without green of heart,
Grows on us like toxic mold.
Too much of dollar can kill a person,
Just like too little causes starvation.
Use money like you use your car,
To go places, not to live at the gas station.
Put love and life above all else.
You’ll know what’s sense, what’s nonsense.
Never Planned (The Sonnet) | Sermon of Sustainability
I never planned to be a poet,
I never planned to be a writer.
I never planned to be a scientist,
I never planned to be a philosopher.
I never had any plans whatsoever,
As to what I was going to be.
As a vagabond I only had one inkling,
That is to equalize the society.
Now that I am a scientist,
Logic comes to me like clockwork.
Now that I am a writer and poet,
Words and rhymes come like lovewalk.
The path appears itself as you start to walk.
Means flow like heartbeat in all purposeful work.
I never planned to be a writer.
I never planned to be a scientist,
I never planned to be a philosopher.
I never had any plans whatsoever,
As to what I was going to be.
As a vagabond I only had one inkling,
That is to equalize the society.
Now that I am a scientist,
Logic comes to me like clockwork.
Now that I am a writer and poet,
Words and rhymes come like lovewalk.
The path appears itself as you start to walk.
Means flow like heartbeat in all purposeful work.
July 4, 2022
Ain’t My Fourth of July (The Sonnet) | Amantes Assemble
Fourth of July comes and goes,
Yet slavery remains and thrives.
It kills in the name of supremacy,
It causes ruin in a pro-life guise.
Real advocates of life value life,
And place life above all belief.
Belief that values guns over person,
Is only pro-death and pro-disease.
Freedom involves accountability,
Without which we are just free animals.
Those who turn superstition into law,
Are no judge but a bunch of dumbbells.
This ain’t my Fourth of July, for I actually value life.
Till all lives are deemed equal, I’ll continue to strive.
Yet slavery remains and thrives.
It kills in the name of supremacy,
It causes ruin in a pro-life guise.
Real advocates of life value life,
And place life above all belief.
Belief that values guns over person,
Is only pro-death and pro-disease.
Freedom involves accountability,
Without which we are just free animals.
Those who turn superstition into law,
Are no judge but a bunch of dumbbells.
This ain’t my Fourth of July, for I actually value life.
Till all lives are deemed equal, I’ll continue to strive.
July 2, 2022
Life is Chaos (The Sonnet) | Sermon of Sustainability
Best laid plans of mice and men,
Often go awry leaving no hope.
Just when you think you have control,
Life throws you off course.
All notions of order are a myth,
Only order of the universe is chaos.
Expand your sight and you’ll realize,
There is order in every chaos.
A narrow mind is ever struggling,
In the tangled web of order and chaos.
A sapient mind works above the two,
For their sight is fixed on a purpose.
Focus on life, not on all its philosophy.
Embrace the chaos and act despite insecurity.
Often go awry leaving no hope.
Just when you think you have control,
Life throws you off course.
All notions of order are a myth,
Only order of the universe is chaos.
Expand your sight and you’ll realize,
There is order in every chaos.
A narrow mind is ever struggling,
In the tangled web of order and chaos.
A sapient mind works above the two,
For their sight is fixed on a purpose.
Focus on life, not on all its philosophy.
Embrace the chaos and act despite insecurity.
Old and New (The Sonnet) | Sermon of Sustainability
Old is not necessarily gold,
New is not necessarily cool.
Stereotypes without scrutiny,
Sustain only a society of fools.
Answer to one stereotype is not another,
Answer to one assumption is not another.
To make assumption is not wrong but,
To assume it as truth supreme is rhubarb.
Perception is all about assumption,
Our brain hasn’t evolved to observe reality.
Biases prevent the observation of biases, unless,
You are hellbent to expand across comfort and luxury.
Stereotypes are archetypes of self-preservation.
Look outside the self and you’ll find assimilation.
New is not necessarily cool.
Stereotypes without scrutiny,
Sustain only a society of fools.
Answer to one stereotype is not another,
Answer to one assumption is not another.
To make assumption is not wrong but,
To assume it as truth supreme is rhubarb.
Perception is all about assumption,
Our brain hasn’t evolved to observe reality.
Biases prevent the observation of biases, unless,
You are hellbent to expand across comfort and luxury.
Stereotypes are archetypes of self-preservation.
Look outside the self and you’ll find assimilation.
