Jashn-e Insan Quotes

“How to Cure Racism
(Indigenous Sonnet 3218)

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,
make decolonial studies mandatory part
of the curriculum from middle school.

All of us who are mentally decolonized,
white and colored alike, became so
out of our own personal inquisitiveness,
not as a result of institutional schooling,
because the institutions themselves haven't
outgrown their endemic eurocentric whitewash
yet, regardless of how proficient they are in
maths and biology and physics and engineering.

It's easier to dissect the brain
than it is to behave human -
studying for grades you become good employees,
reading for pleasure you change the world.

Proficiency in maths, biology, physics,
and engineering count for nothing,
if the hands wielding them
haven't grown into human yet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Travel meaningfully, not fast.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“You only live once, but if you live to plant good, you never die.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Heart beats the same around the world, no matter what the jungle fanatics believe, genes don't have ethnicity, all that genetic ancestry test stuff is bogus, whatever infinitesimal genetic variations there are between peoples, are not ethnic, but environmental.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“The dust on my desk is
more sacred than your altars,
the mud on my feet is
more wise than your scriptures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“popular science does not make this world better for everyone, it only makes this world better for the rich, while welfare of the rest of humanity is always an afterthought -popular science does not make this world better for everyone, it only makes this world better for the rich, while welfare of the rest of humanity is always an afterthought - what'll make this world better for everyone, is humanitarian science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“You start as an idiot, then you start learning and become intelligent, then you learn some more and become wise, until you realize, you're back to idiot again.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Your perverted ethics baffle me, when a brown person named cesar chavez turned out to be a pervert, within years you took down all his official memorials, schools were renamed, holidays redesignated, yet winnie the poo administered the mass killing of nearly 5 million natives, by heisting and hoarding their own grains, and till this day, in almost a hundred years, you still haven't developed the brain cells and backbone to abolish his official heroic stature from the history books.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Nobody is interested in debunking myths and superstitions, they are only interested in debunking myths and superstitions that are not intertwined with their identity. That's why many white atheist twits fight religion most fanatically, with zero interest in debunking false heroes of white colonial history, in fact, many of these elitist morons actually idolize cannibals like churchill.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Kainabi, Sonnet 3230
(Don't take too literally)

Silence is the mother tongue of the universe,
integration is her first instinct,
integration of matter, integration of force,
integration of all existence, that's why
a drop of water makes a perfect bubble
in pressurized but gravityless conditions -

and in the absence of a spacesuit to maintain
a pressurized barrier between skin and vacuum,
every drop of liquid in our body starts boiling,
in order to disperse into its surroundings,
because oneness is the law of the cosmos,
whereas disintegration, sectarianism,
and discrimination, are status quo of the apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Silence is the mother tongue of the universe, integration is her first instinct.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Not everything that is legal is ethical, not everything that is ethical is legal. Legal, rational, religious, patriotic, these are all political categories, not developmental ones - in fact, in many cases these act as the greatest obstacle to the development of human character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Different people cope with pain differently, some take to drinking, some take to god, I explore new facets for my writing, new form, new culture, new language.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“To find happiness in another's joy is the beginning of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“By making a sad person smile we heal our own wounds.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“It's the lost who draw the maps.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Don't need permission to belong.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Outside beauty depends on the wrapper, inside beauty depends on behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“The spine is more than a hook to hang your hat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“A separate space for ai material is okay, but ai material faking as art is illness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Art is an extension of life, it's like the tears on your eyes, you can splash some water onto your face and fool some people, but in your heart you know that you're faking it, and those are nothing but crocodile tears, a disgusting deception on human emotion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“There's no such thing as enlightened beings,
no saints, no mystics, no chosen ones,
there's just decent human beings,
with occasional mishaps and screwups,
and intermittent bouts of despair -

that's all we can be,
decent human beings,
that's all that matters,
not idealist, not absolutist,
just ordinary, accountable and decent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“It's not about being altruistic, it's about fostering a genuine concern for the world outside your home, as you feel for the world inside.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Every global legend is the local loonie.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“I don't mean all that mushy social media fantasies of absolute perfection and aesthetic appeal, I call for visceral spinal currents of conscience, beyond the brainwash of tradition and trends.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Boys, I ask you of one thing, build yourselves into such men that the whole world feels safe around you, children, women, elderly, everybody.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“No plan b, no safety net,
just give it all -
we all die, so better die dreaming;

we're all dust in the end,
better make something of it
while there's life in it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, but a life truly lived never perishes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Dream my friend,
dream that good dream,
walk that hard path,
climb that treacherous mountain,
don't wake up, never wake up,
struggle dreaming, die dreaming.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Dream That Good Dream
(Sonnet 3268)

Dream my friend,
dream that good dream,
walk that hard path,
climb that treacherous mountain,
don't wake up, never wake up,
struggle dreaming, die dreaming;

no plan b, no safety net,
just give it all -
we all die, so better die dreaming;

we're all dust in the end,
better make something of it
while there's life in it.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes,
but a life truly lived never perishes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer