Aşkoholic Quotes

“In the garden of love the gardener is the flower.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“A caterpillar doesn't just grow wings to become a butterfly, its entire anatomy gets reorganized, from a crawling insect to a flying wonder, including its neural pathways, the same must happen to the tribal ape, to become a civilized human. Creation is the aftermath of combustion, enlightenment is the aftermath of annihilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Many Reasons to Hate Naskar
(Sonnet 3186-3187)

Naskar is a textbook traitor,
with zero patriotic spirit,
he seems to care more about
the enemies than his own people.

Naskar is obviously guided by satan,
sprouting all sorts of blasphemous stuff,
like tolerance and interfaith harmony.

Naskar is an absolute fake,
he doesn't even believe in an almighty god,
yet refuses to be called an atheist.

Naskar is a typical lowlife,
who doesn't know the difference
between neuroscience and philosophy.

Naskar is a filthy desert dweller,
who doesn't even understand rhyme and meter.

So, what are you waiting for?
Grab every last of my books,
and sonnets, and verses, and sciences,
and theologies, and philosophies,
and throw it all into the fire,
if that reduces your hatred even slightly.

P.S. Why should good hatred go to waste,
at least we can get a few sonnets out of it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“A country of idiots celebrates filmstars, a civilized country celebrates scientists, poets, educators, engineers, doctors, and all the people who actually advance civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“If a white person promotes his work, it's industrious. If a colored person promotes his work, it's spam.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The Naskar Fraud (Sonnet 3185)

If a white person promotes his work, it's industrious.
If a colored person promotes his work, it's spam.
If a white person is hyper-productive, he's a genius.
If a colored person is hyper-productive, he's a fraud.

White person produces versatile work, he's a polymath.
Colored person produces versatile work, it's a scam.
White people work in foreign lands, they're expats.
Colored people work in foreign lands, they're immigrants.

White people destroy countries after countries,
still they can expect to be treated fairly.
Colored people seek for an ounce of acceptance,
suddenly it's a western existential catastrophe.

And yet, I forgive you my child! Dismiss me today,
your own blood will celebrate me tomorrow.
P.S. my vastness is no reason for you to feel threatened,
I'm not gonna begrudge you your little white giants.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Off With Your Customs (Sonnet 3181 Song)

Off with your customs, off with your dogma;
off with your shackles, off with your altar;
off with your borders, off with your scripture;
off with your flags, and off with your vultures;

off with your prestige, off with your pastors;
off with dualities, off with your dollars;
off with your cryptos, off with your narcos;
off with your Uncles, off with your Hitlers;

off with your customs, off with your dogma;
off with your costume, off with your collar;
off with your promise, off with your plunder;
off with your eden, off with your bunker.

"off with your customs, off with your dogma;
off with your costume, off with your collar;
off with your promise, off with your plunder;
off with your eden, off with your bunker.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“English is the universal second language of planet earth, nothing more - it's primarily a language of convenience, not culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Diary of A Mad Polyglot
(Sonnet 3177-3178)

If you want to find out
if a language is beautiful,
don't listen to how the
pompous aristocrats speak,

listen to how ordinary people
on the streets speak -

that's why turkish is painfully romantic,
french is amorous, castellano is passionate,
german is disciplined, arabic is enigmatic,
persian is divinely mad, urdu is earthy,
whereas english is just useful,
mostly transactional.

English is the universal second language
of planet earth, nothing more - it's primarily
a language of convenience, not culture -
and this comes from a person who
once adopted the language out of love,
until he got disillusioned by history.

If left to me, I'd like to spend the rest
of my life writing only in turkish and spanish,
turkish as main canon, and spanish as complementary,

but that wouldn't do much for my mission on earth,
hence english is the main canon,
and turkish and spanish are supplementary.

But down boy, don't count it as a white victory yet!
Because mine is Naskarian English, not white english,
and it'll take many a restless nights to distinguish the two.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I don't need a religious occasion to feel holy, every day inhabited by a human is sacred, every day is a celebration of the human spirit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The day we learn to celebrate each other, instead of fixating on fairytales in the sky, that day we'll be holy, that day we'll be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Jashn-e Insan (Sonnet 3200)

My life is a celebration of the human,
every day that a child is born,
every day that a child is adopted,
every day someone falls in love,
every day someone gets their heart broken,
then picks up the pieces and trusts again -

every day a white person defends an immigrant,
every day a jew carries a palestinian flag,
every day a muslim and hindu stand as brothers,
every day an atheist defends a religious person,
is a celebration, every day is Naskar day -

I don't need a religious occasion to feel holy,
every day inhabited by a human is sacred,
every day is a celebration* of the human spirit,
every day is *Jashn-e Insan.

The day we learn to celebrate each other,
instead of fixating on fairytales
in the sky, that day we'll be holy,
that day we'll be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Whenever apes dehumanize a human community, you'll find me standing among the dehumanized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“No language on earth does poetry more divinely than languages rooted in islamic culture, and I say this as a polyglot poet scientist,”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I love when bigots blow their fuse because of something I've written, it gives me a sort of spiritual orgasm.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I stand wherever humanity is denied.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Why I'm A Muslim Poet (Sonnet 3176)

I'm a muslim poet, not because Islam is
the one true religion and all others are false,
I'm a muslim poet, because muslims are the
most dehumanized community on planet earth -

whenever apes dehumanize a human community,
you'll find me standing among the dehumanized,
I stand wherever humanity is denied, whether
in the name of ethnic supremacy or intellectual.

I love when bigots blow their fuse
because of something I've written,
it gives me a sort of spiritual orgasm.

Besides, no language on earth does poetry
more divinely than languages rooted in islamic
culture, and I say this as a polyglot poet scientist,
not as a rotten poncy whitewashed english speaker.

Whenever I write something heartbindingly
soulful, I give the pen to Dervish Naskar,
wearing the garb of the english script.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“How do you end animosity between nations, between cultures? You stand as the ultimate beacon of brotherhood - borderless, prejudiceless, intoleranceless.

And once others see you stand hateless despite nationalist propaganga, at least five amongst five hundred will be lit with the fire of integration, then those five will light twenty five more, and soon every corner of the world will have its local messenger of love, to stand as cure against xenophobic infection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The mark of your humanity is not your clothes, nor your scripture, or your rationality, you're human when you stand among the dehumanized and defend their rights as your own.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“How to Read and Publish Naskar
(Sonnet 3171-3173)

When you publish my works after me,
make sure the new covers are made by
human hands, preferably adapting from the
originals that I designed with my own hands -

don't dishonor my life's work
by using generative ai;

remember, the original Naskar covers
are an instrumental part of the canon,
not mere decorations.

Also, be careful with Naskar typos,
because what you presume as typo, might be
deliberately planted linguistic landmine -

sure you might find actual typos,
in fact I'm sure of it, but most of what
you'd consider typos with your monolingual,
monocultural brain, are Naskarian artifacts.

Then finally, there is the matter of editing,
and I decree: unless you're a Naskar yourself,
by which I mean, a multicultural, multilingual,
multidisciplinary being, without fanaticism,
without militant rationalism, as well as
without pseudoscientific supernaturalism,
you are unqualified to edit Naskar -

Naskar too is falsifiable, but not by tribal minds,
and I don't just mean religiously or culturally
tribal, I also mean intellectually tribal;

you may skip the first two or three years,
because as I've often remarked,
they were mostly borrowed research,
with occasional original Naskar,
but as for mid and late phase Naskar,
publish each text in its original entirety -

you may abridge if necessary, with caution,
but you must not try to edit Naskar -
a climber mustn't try to edit the Himalayas.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“How do you end animosity between nations, between cultures? You stand as the ultimate beacon of brotherhood – borderless, prejudiceless, intoleranceless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Just like there is such a thing as helpful bacteria, there is such a thing as therapeutic superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“We all need some superstition in our life, I say superstition because I want to be blunt, no ambiguity, we all need some superstition, for most part they are therapeutic, so don’t try to explain it with scientific jargon, because that’s when your superstition becomes delusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Pak-I-Stand (Sonnet 3174)

How do you end animosity
between nations, between cultures?
You stand as the ultimate beacon of brotherhood -
borderless, prejudiceless, intoleranceless.

And once others see you stand hateless
despite nationalist propaganga,
at least five amongst five hundred
will be lit with the fire of integration,

then those five will light twenty five more,
and soon every corner of the world
will have its local messenger of love,
to stand as cure against xenophobic infection.

The mark of your humanity is not your clothes,
nor your scripture, or your rationality,
you're human when you stand among the
dehumanized and defend their rights as your own.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Purpose of empiricism is to help treat harmful prejudice, not to eliminate every little irrationality from life - the moment you demand every human experience pass a laboratory test before it is allowed emotional legitimacy, you haven't proven you're more rational, you've proven you're less human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Life is a symposium of symbols, all work as psychological reinforcement mechanism -

a flag is just cloth,
a ring is just metal,
a photograph is just paper and pixels,
a grave is just earth and stone,
yet they hold the emotional weight
of an entire universe -

life's meaning doesn't depend on empirical falsification, purpose of empiricism is to help treat harmful prejudice, not to eliminate every little irrationality from life -

the moment you demand every human experience pass a laboratory test before it is allowed emotional legitimacy, you haven't proven you're more rational, you've proven you're less human.

Just like there is such a thing as helpful bacteria, there is such a thing as therapeutic superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Good Superstition (Sonnet 3163-3164)

We all need some superstition in our life,
I say superstition because I want to be blunt,
no ambiguity, we all need some superstition,
for most part they are therapeutic,

so don't try to explain it with scientific jargon,
because that's when your superstition becomes delusion.

Life is a symposium of symbols,
all work as psychological reinforcement mechanism -

a flag is just cloth,
a ring is just metal,
a photograph is just paper and pixels,
a grave is just earth and stone,
yet they hold the emotional weight
of an entire universe -

life's meaning doesn't depend on empirical falsification,
purpose of empiricism is to help treat harmful prejudice,
not to eliminate every little irrationality from life -

the moment you demand every human experience
pass a laboratory test before it is allowed
emotional legitimacy, you haven't proven you're
more rational, you've proven you're less human.

Symbols need neither rational evidence
nor supernatural powers to hold human meaning -
just like there is such a thing as helpful bacteria,
there is such a thing as therapeutic superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The original sin is not adam eating an apple, that's just bedtime story for adults, real original sin is when you separated god from human, and placed it in the sky.

God was human, until we invented religion. Organized religion is the original sin, that dissociated humanity from its own divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Propaganda sells more than peace.
Lust sells more than love.
Violence sells more than virtue.
Afterlife sells more than earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Propaganda sells more than peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human