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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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. 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
What is not a civilized planet ― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
“A planet where faith is expensive,
reason is expensive, science is expensive,
medicine is expensive, food is expensive,
everything is expensive, only human life is cheap,
is a lot of things, but not civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
“When you reach the mountaintop you no longer want to convert people.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
“When you reach the mountaintop
you no longer want to convert people,
nor do you want to take away their god.”
“Religious fundamentalists, xenophobic nationalists,
and militant atheists, are all cut from the same cloth,
the cloth of cantankerous dogma, sometimes they
come dressed in ceremonial religious garb,
sometimes in aristocratic intellectual suits.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
The gentle and the vicious ― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
“What good is science that can’t refuse to make bombs!
What good is faith that can’t refuse to hate!”
“The largest creatures on earth –
whales, elephants, giraffes, are all gentle –
it’s only the little ones that are vicious.
Need I say more!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
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