Jashn-e Insan Quotes

“If you want to tackle racism after the damage has been done, focus on race relations, but if you want to cure the system that produces racism, focus on decolonial studies for children.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“If my writing becomes scripture, burn them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Zionism is antisemitism, because it's against every single cultural, theological, historic principle of the Jewish people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“The Blitz was a humanitarian crisis, but Gaza is apparently a political matter! Why, because it’s never about human rights, it’s always about narrative privilege, inherited from the good old colonial days.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“When it was “Slava Ukraini”,
it was not hard to say.

When it was “Free Poland”,
it was not hard to say.

When it was “Vive la France”,
it was not hard to say.

But when it’s “Free Palestine”,
whitewashed apes get tonguetied!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Genocide is not an opposing view, it’s an animal practice – and animals need to be restrained, not respected – they need to be confronted, boycotted, and sanctioned, until they start behaving like human again.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Genocide is not an opposing view
(Sonnet 3216)

When it was "Slava Ukraini",
it was not hard to say.

When it was "Free Poland",
it was not hard to say.

When it was "Vive la France",
it was not hard to say.

But when it's "Free Palestine",
whitewashed apes get tonguetied!

The Blitz was a humanitarian crisis,
but Gaza is apparently a political matter!
Why, because it's never about human rights,
it's always about narrative privilege,
inherited from the good old colonial days.

Many people smoke and drink, I don't,
these are opposing views, and can coexist
within moderation, but the support
of genocide is not an opposing view,
it's an animal practice -

and animals need to be restrained,
not respected - they need to be
confronted, boycotted, and sanctioned,
until they start behaving like human again.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Christliness is to find Christ in your neighbor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“What is religion, what is brainwash?
Whatever unites, is religion,
whatever divides, is brainwash.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“In the eyes of the truly holy, there is no false religion and true religion, there are only many mirrors to one light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“If you can't find Mevla (God) in Leyla (Love), you're not religious, only brainwashed - only Mejnun (Mad in Love) is religious, all others are brainwashed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Uneducated countries build bigger statues of their politicians, educated nations build better housing, healthcare and schooling for their citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“There is no bigger terrorist organization than a government run by nationalists and fundamentalists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“I don't want jungle patriots hanging from flagpoles, saluting with backbone dangling from their derriere, I want civilized patriots who've outgrown the jungle, patriots who wear their heart on their chest, carry their backbone as battery, and brain as gear, not in defence of a monkey state or kingdom or flag, but in defence of the marginalized humans, in defence of the discriminated, dehumanized, and displaced.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“I gave up my youth for the world, and I ask the youth of only one thing, look out for others around you, in school, at work, on the streets, everywhere - particularly those who don't look like you, speak your language, or practice your religion, because the countries of earth are crawling with monkeys covering up for their own, but humans looking out for fellow humans are still scarce.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Either Nationalist or Human (Naskaristana 3215)

I gave up my youth for the world, and I ask the youth of only one thing, look out for others around you, in school, at work, on the streets, everywhere -

particularly those who don't look like you, speak your language, or practice your religion, because the countries of earth are crawling with monkeys covering up for their own, but humans looking out for fellow humans are still scarce.

I don't want jungle patriots hanging from flagpoles, saluting with backbone dangling from their derriere, I want civilized patriots who've outgrown the jungle, patriots who wear their heart on their chest, carry their backbone as battery, and brain as gear, not in defence of a monkey state or kingdom or flag, but in defence of the marginalized humans, in defence of the discriminated, dehumanized, and displaced.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“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.

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, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“United we are human,
divided we are apes -
only Virtue is Wholeness,
fragmentation makes undead;

tolerate no Xenophobe,
Young and old all get infected,
Zionists are temu adolf -
you stand human, vaccinated!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Tolerate no Xenophobe,
Young and old all get infected,
Zionists are temu adolf -
you stand human, vaccinated!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“N for No,
and No means No -
Ovaries are law,
Patriarchy must go.

(from 18+ ABC Song)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“18+ ABC Song
(Sonnet 3213-3214)

A for Awareness,
B for Born,
C for Conscience,
D for Dawn;

E for Equality,
F for Faith,
and never be blind
with inherited hate;

G for Gallant,
and H for Humble,
I for Integrity,
so never you crumble;

J for Just,
and K for Kind,
L for Love,
M for Mind;

N for No,
and No means No -
Ovaries are law,
Patriarchy must go;

Q for Question,
R for Reason,
S for Scrutinize,
spare no Tradition;

United we are human,
divided we are apes -
only Virtue is Wholeness,
fragmentation makes undead;

tolerate no Xenophobe,
Young and old all get infected,
Zionists are temu adolf -
you stand human, vaccinated!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“I walk the line between fact and fiction, I inhabit the space between sane and insane, until you develop a mind capable of containing seemingly paradoxical ideas without collapsing, you are not ready to enter the Naskar garden - you can enter, but it'll all feel alien.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“J for Just,
and K for Kind,
L for Love,
M for Mind.

(from 18+ ABC Song)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Zionists are temu adolf.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“No fancy equipment, no artificial garbage, written from naked mind, recorded in naked voice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“History of music is teeming with love songs, religious songs, patriotic songs, nowadays even conspiracy songs - then why is it that tolerance, oneness, plurality, humanity have practically zero musical exposure! But never mind, Naskar is here.

After thousands of sonnets, it'd be a shame if I didn't leave behind at least a few hundred songs. No fancy equipment, no artificial garbage, written from naked mind, recorded in naked voice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Any art that lifts the human spirit is Naskar art, every science that lifts up society is Naskar science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“History of music is teeming with love songs, religious songs, patriotic songs, nowadays even conspiracy songs - then why is it that tolerance, oneness, plurality, humanity have practically zero musical exposure! But never mind, Naskar is here.

For a while now I've wanted to include songs in the canon, but the formatting of a song felt too mechanical, all that hook, bridge, verse, chorus stuff, until I realized, why not burn the format altogether, like I did with the sonnets, and write it like any other Naskar sonnet, only a little more lyrical than usual.

Besides, after thousands of sonnets, it'd be a shame if I didn't leave behind at least a few hundred songs. Any art that lifts the human spirit is Naskar art, every science that lifts up society is Naskar science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“After thousands of sonnets, it'd be a shame if I didn't leave behind at least a few hundred songs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“God is the first and final call of love, living inside the four chambers of the heart, not behind the four walls of organized religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer