Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "invasion"

Stop calling it war, for war implies faults on both sides. It’s an invasion, where the state of Russia is the aggressor and the people of Ukraine are the victim. And stop saying that your prayers are with the Ukrainian people, for prayers may give you comfort, but it does nothing to alleviate their suffering. Shred all hypocritical advocacy of human rights and be involved in a meaningful way that actually helps the victims of Russian imperialism.

At the moment, don’t buy my books, help the people of Ukraine instead. Consider supporting Nova Ukraine, People in Need, United Help Ukraine, UNICEF Ukraine, Ukraine World, The Kyiv Independent, The New Voice of Ukraine, and other organizations working on the ground.

Poverty is a capitalist invention,
Third world obscurity is colonial construct.
History of the west is history of abuse,
World hunger is a western by-product.

Today I salute you,
For today you are king,
Ruler of the entire earth,
One without a living being.

My congratulations, your majesty,
On your glorious accomplishment!
Fate worse than a defeated king
is a king without subjects.

I got buried in the wreck,
So did my friends and family.
But still I salute you my king,
On your unparalleled victory.

I salute you from my grave,
For today you are king,
Ruler of a million lands,
Yet still, ruler of nothing!

Humans be human, alive and aware,
not tokens of ancestral blunder.
Awake, arise and right the wrongs,
whether in the west or down under.

We gotta fight on the beaches,
We gotta fight on human grounds.
This time we gotta fight as human,
not as puppets to colonial clowns.

Fight as brave lions for sacred inclusivity,
not for saffronication as domesticated cows.
Fight for justice, rejuvenated by reason,
not for prejudice, decreed by apeman vows.

The world is filled with atrocious holidays,
Columbus Day, Australia Day and Thanksgiving.
Holidays steeped in blood and blunder, are
passed on proudly as occasion of merrymaking.

Imagine celebrating 9/11 as a day of freedom,
Yet colonizers do exactly that without shame.
And these animal holidays are a thousand times
more atrocious than the crash of nine eleven.

Nine eleven is a ghastly stain upon history,
there is no doubt or question about that.
But what about the infinitely larger stains,
inflicted, respected and celebrated by cowards!

Human rights can never prevail till we
dismantle every false celebration.
Animals find honor in blood and blunder,
We become human through course correction.