Tierra Carta Quotes

“Science doesn't make someone a better person, if it did, no physicist would help develop nuclear weapons, or no biologist would help develop biological weapons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“More filth you cook, more untouchable I become - more accusations you invent, more impossible I become.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Some have problem with my inclusivity,
some have problem with my vastness,
some have problem with my velocity,
some have problem with my polyglottery,
and some just have problem with my skin -
and finding no filth, they just cook it up.

More power to you I say,
because more filth you cook,
more untouchable I become -
more accusations you invent,
more impossible I become.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Naskar Scandal (Sonnet 2945)

Some have problem with my inclusivity,
some have problem with my vastness,
some have problem with my velocity,
some have problem with my polyglottery,
and some just have problem with my skin -
and finding no filth, they just cook it up.

I don't even consider most of your
tribal white giants as my equal,
and you think I'll be rattled
by the temper tantrums of a bunch
of underdeveloped neanderthals -

more power to you I say,
because more filth you cook,
more untouchable I become -
more accusations you invent,
more impossible I become -

and yet, I forgive you my child,
I forgive you, and I'm quite confident,
you too will evolve into human someday,
if not you, your descendants will.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Asked a beggar, what is happiness?
"Piece of bread," he said.
Asked a king, what is happiness?
"More territory," he said.

Asked a fanatic, what is happiness?
"More converts," he said.
Asked a scientist, what is happiness?
"More prestige," they said.

Asked a politician, what is happiness?
"Another term," they said.
Asked a farmer, what is happiness?
"Abundant rain," they said.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't waste life inflating your ego with elitist armchair analysis like some overfed aristocratic twit, you have circuits to break.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Circuits to Break (Sonnet 2940)

Asked a beggar, what is happiness?
"Piece of bread," he said.
Asked a king, what is happiness?
"More territory," he said.

Asked a fanatic, what is happiness?
"More converts," he said.
Asked a scientist, what is happiness?
"More prestige," they said.

Asked a politician, what is happiness?
"Another term," they said.
Asked a farmer, what is happiness?
"Abundant rain," they said.

Asked a soldier, what is happiness?
"To see my kid grow up," they said.
So I went and asked in the mirror,
what is happiness?

The mirror cracked with a roar:
you're not a philosopher you idiot,
don't waste life inflating your ego
with elitist armchair analysis
like some overfed aristocratic twit,
you have a planet to unify -
peoples to unite, circuits to break.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“White is not a color, white is a mentality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“White is not a color, white is a mentality, which affects everybody, particularly in a world which is whitewashed from head to toe, from future to the past, from pulpit to the parliament, from belief to disbelief.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“There is nothing uglier than a colored mouth with a colonial voice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“History of the west is history of plagiarism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“White delusion doesn't affect only white people, it also affects colored people, then they start making noises like white people - and there is nothing uglier than a colored mouth with a white colonial voice - white is not a color, white is a mentality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When the colored speak white (Sonnet 2942)

White delusion doesn't affect only white people,
it also affects colored people,
then they start making noises like white people -

they look at noneuropean science like white people,
they look at noneuropean philosophy like white people,
they look at noneuropean theology like white people,
they look at noneuropean humanity like white people -

which is, aloof from the window of an ivory castle,
and there is nothing uglier than a colored mouth
with a white colonial voice -

white people with white delusion are backward, but
colored people with white delusion are downright grotesque,
which is why, white is not a color, white is a mentality,
which affects everybody, particularly in a world which is whitewashed from head to toe, from future to the past,
from pulpit to the parliament, from belief to disbelief -

all the while plagiarizing from the global south,
because, history of the west is history of plagiarism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“More you fetishize the wrapping, more life slips through the fingers. More you cling to the school of thought, more truth slips through the fingers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry. I cry for tolerance, they call it philosophy. I reject prejudice, they call it science. I stand undivided, they call it theology. Apparently humans cannot fathom life unless it comes giftwrapped, then they put the wrapping on the altar, and build a school around it, while disposing of the life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry
(Sonnet 2939)

I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry.
I cry for tolerance, they call it philosophy.
I reject prejudice, they call it science.
I stand undivided, they call it theology.

Apparently humans cannot fathom life
unless it comes giftwrapped,
then they put the wrapping on the altar,
and build a school around it,
while disposing of the life.

More you fetishize the wrapping,
more life slips through the fingers.
More you cling to the school of thought,
more truth slips through the fingers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“No manifestation, just perspiration. No vibration, just aspiration. No bending like goat, no bowing like sheep - no bleating, only revolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The planet pulses in my blood vessels,
I cannot fit into a monkey's passport.
Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness,
I cannot fit into your animal customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Brain is my engine,
heart is my compass,
backbone is my battery,
character is my garment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“No manifestation, just perspiration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Books are my jewellery, memories are my assets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Languages are my liquor, cultures are my cocaine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Portrait of A Human (Sonnet 2938)

Books are my jewellery,
memories are my assets.
Languages are my liquor,
cultures are my cocaine.

Brain is my engine,
heart is my compass,
backbone is my battery,
character is my garment.

No manifestation, just perspiration.
No vibration, just aspiration.
No bending like goat,
no bowing like sheep -
no bleating, only revolution.

The planet pulses in my blood vessels,
I cannot fit into a monkey's passport.
Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness,
I cannot fit into your animal customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If your brain doesn't set fire to the bigots, your neurons aren't electric enough.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don’t need reason to be kind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Religions there are thousands, divinity there is but one - oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Languages there are thousands, understanding there is but one - empathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Citizenships there are hundreds, nationality there is but one - humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Ethnicities there are thousands, culture there is but one - kindness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth