Naskar Quotes

“For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita, and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Naskar sonnet is a self-contained unit of civilization, indifferent to literary convention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I never grovelled to be included, I let my vastness out, and the world queues for my grace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Early Naskar unraveled the brain, Mid Naskar delivered backbone, Late Naskar is pilgrim of the heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“My writings are not decoration, but wirings of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“You may forget my name,
you may forget the year,
but you'll never forget my story,
you'll never forget which side I stood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I am what happens when a monk scientist goes full-on godmode to establish a planetary, integrated, anti-racist, anti-phobic, anti-misogynist, anti-colonial, anti-military, anti-nationalist civilization of actual human beings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Forget the canon, you can't even make sense of my titles, bleating like nationalist livestock, and chanting like brainless bacon - you have to have a certain amount of multicultural tendency, which in a way, is your first test of pilgrimage, moreover, it's the key to the Naskar Canon. If you have no desire to step outside your culture, there's no point in grabbing any of my text, you might as well pick up a chinese or arab text, and expect to be an expert while speaking only English.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Integration is divine by reason of poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I obliterate myself pouring out life, beyond all known limits of literature, only to be blamed for my himalayan immensity, by the religious of hate and nationals of bigotry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“First I was a monk, then I was a scientist, later I was a poet, finally I am the Human Race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Not with intellect, not with faith - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“To read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I have no allegiance to any religious institution, or to any academic institution, I don't even have allegiance to the truth, truth can go to hell for all I care - I only care about integration - absolute, indivisible, unbending, unflinching spirit of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“By the time I'm finished with religion, religion would be more allergic to superstition and prejudice than science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“By The Time I'm Finished (Sonnet 2601)

Belief matters less
where people matter more.
Time matters less
when life matters more.

Scientific truth changes with data,
spiritual truth changes with era,
cultural truth changes with civilization,
but to unite, empathize, love and lift
across fractures, is the one absolute virtue.

By the time I'm finished with science,
science would be more service centered
than religion.

By the time I'm finished with religion,
religion would be more allergic
to superstition and prejudice than science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm exhausted, I want to sleep, but I'm afraid, if I fall asleep, I might not wake up - so I toil, till the soil is human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“When Naskar Runs Out (Origin Myth Sonnet, 2705)

Mission Naskar originated from the mind
of an ordinary mortal, named Gadadhar Chatterjee -
he was a crazy, illiterate, eccentric hindu priest,
who used to have hallucinations of his venerated
Mother Kali, not unlike how my own bond
with him ignited during my adolescence -

but that's not why I call him crazy,
he was crazy because despite being a hindu priest,
he used to sit for namaaz in the mosque next to his
fellow muslim, just like he used to call Christ his own,
all of which was blasphemy for a man in his position.

And from time to time when treachery of the world
drags me down to my lowest, so much so that
everyday mortal means feels powerless to lift me up,
I throw myself back at his feet,

like a ship battered from the voyage
anchored at its home-dock for repairs -
lo and behold, I emerge Naskar again,
with vision restored, and veins emboldened.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't think, I roar.
I don't write, I pour.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Early Naskar, 2015-17, was mostly borrowed research with occasional original Naskar, mid Naskar, 2017-21, was mostly original Naskar with occasional borrowed data, late phase Naskar, 2021 onward, is pure Naskar, beyond the scale and scope of institutions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I spent my youth building reputation, then I spent a life setting fire to it, because reputation among sectarian apes only means that I’ve failed as a human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Naskar Goes to Earth (2745-2746)

I was born of flesh,
and given the name Naskar,
I outgrew the rule of flesh,
but kept the name as token.

Flesh and name are both just shell,
both have a role, but none is sovereign.
Submit to flesh, and monkeys run amok,
worship the name, and stagnation sets in.

I was born of ash,
I lived as electricity,
I'll end in ash, and someone
somewhere will carry my insanity.

I don't want you to inherit my belief,
I don't even want you to inherit my ideas,
if there is one thing I want you to inherit,
it's my insatiable responsibility to the world.

If you're sufficiently dutybound to humanity,
like a living, breathing human being should be,
you'd inadvertently develop the same ideas,
even if you haven't read a single leaf of me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I burnt my reputation to the ground, so I could stand as an undomesticated beacon, doesn't matter if no one comes to my aid, I have no desire to be worshipped by gibbons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“It all started with a promise - Liberty is my religion, Humans are my God; what took to paper as a penniless dream, ignited the planet with culture of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Keepers of Earth (Sonnet 2656)

Every country has its local beacon of humanity,
you don't need to look to another country
to know what the best of humanity looks like -

if you are American, think like MLK -
if you are South African, think like Madiba -
if you are Russian, think like Tolstoy -
if you are Indian, think like Narendranath Dutta -

if you are Serbian, think like Nikola -
if you are Azerbaijani, think like Nasimi -
if you are Turkish, think like Mustafa Kemal -
if you are English, think like Jane Goodall.

But if you fail to call any country your own,
if the whole charade of nationality
and tribal identity feels meaningless to you,
then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every country has its local beacon of humanity -
if you are American, think like MLK -
if you are South African, think like Madiba -
if you are Indian, think like Narendranath Dutta -
if you are Azerbaijani, think like Nasimi -
if you are Turkish, think like Mustafa Kemal.

But If the whole charade of nationality feels meaningless to you, then you may come
and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Naskar is a madness, signpost of love against lies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“It’s the Naskar Fever, side effects include – rewriting the world, you may experience thoughts too wide, and sudden urges to dissolve divide.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth