About Abhijit Naskar
Abhijit Naskar is a celebrated Neuroscientist, Acclaimed Author of 120+ books, and Earth Poet with 3000+ sonnets. As an expert on human behavior his contributions in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience have helped the world tackle the issues of mental illness, prejudice, hate, intolerance, discrimination and systemic racism more effectively. He was born in Calcutta, India. His rejuvenating scientific philosophy of the mind has been lavishing human life and society with the colors and sweetness of awareness and acceptance since its advent with his very first book “The Art of Neuroscience in Everything”.
Naskar’s work has been featured in Psychology Today, Forbes, Huffington Post, Marie Claire, Interesting Engineering, ABC Australia, and many more.
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Clinical Symptoms of Fascism (Earthlog 3232-3233) ― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
“Every nation must wash its own dirty laundry.”
“Clinical Symptoms of Fascism
(Earthlog 3232-3233)
The british and americans made an unparalleled career out of fascism, by invading, extorting, and erasing, but fascism is not white or colored, every country has its fascist elements, because fascism is one of the common animal elements of human nature.
That is why, if you think, end of the empire was the end of fascism, you couldn’t be more brainlessly wrong – in modern times, the enemies of a country lurk within its own democratically elected government, rather than come from outside.
How to tell fascism from democracy?
Look for the state fanatically obsessed with one religion, one culture, one tradition, and there you’ll find your own homegrown fascist regime – and if that happens, you didn’t expel the empire, you just replaced white terrorists with colored ones.
Every nation must wash its own dirty laundry – a nation is not free until every last stubborn stain of fanaticism is scrubbed out of the social fabric, with the detergent of reason and the spirit of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
Better White Guilt than White Privilege (Sonnet 3222-3223) ― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
“Better White Guilt than White Privilege
(Sonnet 3222-3223)
If you are white, be extremely cautious,
self-conscious, and absolutely apologetic,
while commenting on people’s religion and
culture, and it does not matter whatsoever
whether you’re a fundamentalist or rationalist;
because that’s exactly how your ancestors
destroyed populations after populations,
not only in the name of god,
but also in the name of rationality.
So whenever you feel the elitist urge
to dismiss other people’s culture,
look at your skin first,
if it turns red in the sun,
it’s nature’s way of telling you to shut up,
you’re in no ethical position
to pass judgement on morality and reason.
Do not even open your mouth until
you’re properly scrubbed and decolonized –
if you wanna call it white guilt, call it white guilt,
better white guilt than white privilege.
In fact, if you feel guilty for the actions
of your animal ancestors, it’s proof that
your bloodline has finally become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
When Erasure is Religion, Mutiny is Right (Sonnet 3226/ Song 6) ― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan
“When Erasure is Religion, Mutiny is Right
(Sonnet 3226/ Song 6)
Pack your brain that does no good,
and pack your hands that cannot help;
boot the chiefs that start a war,
and boot the bros that sell the hate.
Pack your kings that loot the world,
and pack your churches stood on bones,
stole the land then sold the skies,
manufactured famine, fortune poured.
Now go burn white maps and syllabus,
now go break your trance of west,
scrub the whitewash, face the history,
grow the spine of humanness.
When erasure be religion,
mutiny becomes a right,
grab the settler by the collar,
earth is our birthright.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
Adult ABC Song (Sonnet 3213-3214) ― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
“Adult 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
How to Cure Racism (Indigenous Sonnet 3218) ― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
“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
Genocide is not an opposing view (Sonnet 3216) ― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan
“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
“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
“Any art that lifts the human spirit is Naskar art, every science that lifts up society is Naskar science.”
“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 (Naskarism Songlab). 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
Either Nationalist or Human (Naskaristana 3215) ― 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
Every Person is My People (Sonnet 3201/ Song 4) ― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
“Every Person is My People
(Sonnet 3201/ Song 4)
If my freedom hates another,
if my brain degrades another,
if my faith erase another,
if my progress thieves another,
if my culture kills another,
if my science shells another,
if my medicine bills another,
if my code surveils another,
if my scripture burns another,
if my flag tortures another,
if my crown converts another,
if my god butchers another –
I don’t want such myths and manner,
I don’t want such paradise planner,
I don’t want such nuts and spanner,
I don’t want such ritual murder –
I don’t want such god and culture,
I am not some faithful vulture,
every person is my people,
every culture is my culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
The Poet Idiot (Sonnet 3138/ Song 2) ― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
“The Poet Idiot
(Sonnet 3138/ Song 2)
Some call me a dervish,
and some call advaitin.
All fight over garments,
and none cares for a human.
Some chained to the doctrine,
and some chained to equation.
Some just wanna prove god,
and some nonexistence.
Some say, I’m a sufi,
and some say, I’m a scientist.
Larger than a mountain,
yet smaller than an atom.
What good is a knife that is
all blade, and no handle!
What good is a brain that is
devoid of compassion!
Some call me a poet,
and some call me an idiot.
I just am a Human
igniting toleration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
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