Naskar Sonnets Quotes

“She grew weary and took the hand of another. I couldn't write a single word for days, but then, I let the god complex unleashed. That's about when my writing skyrocketed, as the heartbreak jolted my brain into a hyper-publishing engine. I had all the time in the world, and enough pain to fuel my pen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Why did my publishing output skyrocket around 2019? Put your conspiracy theories aside, I’ll tell you why. When I started writing, I had a partner, I had plans to settle in Sofia with her. But then I lost my link to the Balkans, when she grew weary and took the hand of another. I couldn’t write a single word for days, but then, I let the god complex unleashed. That’s about when my writing skyrocketed, as the heartbreak jolted my brain into a hyper-publishing engine. I had all the time in the world, and enough pain to fuel my pen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I dropped out of computer engineering, and became Monk Scientist, to humanize the divine and divinize the human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm incomplete.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In the Naskar world, sonnet is not an elitist structure of rigid rhyme and meter, Naskar sonnet is a self-contained unit of civilization, indifferent to literary convention.”
― 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

“What is A Naskar Sonnet (2312)

In the Naskar world, sonnet is not
an elitist structure of rigid rhyme and meter,
Naskar sonnet is a self-contained unit of
civilization, indifferent to literary convention.

I weave sonnets around the message,
instead of forcing the message into the sonnets.
Till you cut the cuffs of form, don't touch my works,
if you want method and structure, pursue mathematics.

Childish eurocentric conventions are too puny
to contain the vastness of a transcendental human,
sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita,
and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.

Every mind is infinite, every mind, transcendental,
ape customs castrate the human into farm animal.
Cut the wings of a dove at birth,
and it'll spend its life crawling like vermin.”
― 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

“Show me love, I’ll respond with a quiet smile – throw me hate, I’ll metabolize it and rewrite your history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“My brain is the planet’s largest organic manufacturing plant of multiculturalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The Accidental American
(Naskaristana 2753)

Five whole years I went from
door to door, looking for support,
I wanted to build my own tech startup,
but all I received was ridicule and advise -

finally I withdrew myself
from the nation I was born in,
and placed all my attention on America -

I had zero money, my only assets were
my heart and brain, which was all I needed
to reshape America, then the whole world.

The Naskar you know is a direct outcome
of the entrepreneur that never came to life -
naskar the youngster failed in his innovation dreams,
so Naskar the Civilization emerged as the earth way of life.”
― 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

“My sonnets, my rules -
my science, my rules -
my theology, my rules -
my universe, my rules.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I don't know how to write (Sonnet 1934)

The world deems me a poet, and I've
accepted the honor in grace and kind.
But the fact of the matter is that,
I literally don't know how to write.

Whatever I produce, write themselves,
I just lend my fingers to the keyboard.
Nothing supernatural, just my subconscious
does the writing, I sit back and let it flow.

The ancients called it autowriting,
kind of divine intervention in human life.
Had it not been for my childhood passion
for science, I too would've fallen to lies.

Thus I trust the divine writer within,
without coddling a superstitious narrative.
As a teen I often had visions of statements,
now it has exploded into everyday habit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“The world deems me a poet, but I don't know how to write. Whatever I produce, write themselves, as a teen I often had visions of statements, now it has exploded into everyday habit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“The Invisible Writer (Sonnet 2654)

When I unveil a new book cover, you'd naturally assume that I know what I'm gonna write, but let me tell you a secret, in strictest confidence -

I don't, I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about - by dropping the cover I just make an appointment, with some invisible force inside, and when the time comes, the book starts pouring on its own, all I do is take dictation.

You see, I hate writing from thought, I used to, the first two years, but then I got introduced to the actual writer within, who does not need outside sources, because outside sources, academic or religious, are too backward and downright shortsighted -

which is why, things written from thought are too dull for my taste, I may accept basic data, but never thought, not even my own - for the canon to be magical it has to be born of spontaneous combustion, verse by verse, manuscript by manuscript - otherwise it's not Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you tie Naskar to a nation, you've failed the Naskar mission.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“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

“Not sonnets, Naskar Sonnets (2883)

I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets,
don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed,
backward eurocentric customs and conventions -
you're welcome to keep your little legends,
but don't go comparing your lampposts with the sun!

I'm not superior to your aristocratic literature,
I'm just from a different dimension altogether,
a civilized dimension, a non-xenophobic dimension,
a non-misogynist dimension, a non-settler,
non-privileged, non-primate dimension -

a dimension where I write as I live,
I live as I write, instead of being
a saint on paper, while a sicko in life.

I don't write to earn your approval or trust,
I write to shortcircuit your jungle customs -
it's you who has to stand the Naskar Test,
not the other way around.

If you could finish even half of what I've written,
you'd either hate me enough to kill,
or you'd be so massive a human that everywhere
you look you'd find your own reflection,
wearing different skin and different clothes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If you could finish even half of what I've written, you'd either hate me enough to kill, or you'd be so massive a human that everywhere you look you'd find your own reflection, wearing different skin and different clothes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“It's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions - you're welcome to keep your little legends, but don't go comparing your lampposts with the sun!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions - you're welcome to keep your little legends, but don't go comparing your lampposts with the sun!

I'm not superior to your aristocratic literature, I'm just from a different dimension altogether, a civilized dimension, a non-xenophobic dimension, a non-misogynist dimension, a non-settler, non-privileged, non-primate dimension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I don’t even consider most of your tribal white giants as my equal, and you think I’ll be rattled by the temper tantrums of a bunch of underdeveloped neanderthals.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't place me in the lineage of your tribal white giants, they were cute little smart kids, but that's all, my peers of heart used to write in arabic, turkish, persian, and sanskrit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Evolution of Naskar (Sonnet 2693-2694)

I didn't have internet while growing up, I used to save pocket money to buy nonfiction, and lots of dictionaries - I used to keep them sprawled open around me on the floor during homework,

and later when I published my first book, I leaned back into that same childhood habit, I remember spending months gathering notes from heaps of downloaded research publications.

After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of that book was so radically different from my already published more academic-style work, which had already established me as a neuroscientist, that I considered publishing it under a pseudonym, to prevent it from jeopardizing my scholarly standing -

but that work felt like homecoming to my soul, so I chose to continue my legacy in that newly awakened tone, and then on, my reliance on secondhand research declined drastically, except for when I required occasional empirical data.

Science-heavy works are not necessarily truth-heavy works, just like scripture-heavy works are not necessarily divine-heavy works.

No risk, no discovery - no discovery, no humanity; had I stayed within the narrow confines of facts and figures, in fear of being shunned by academics, the human race would've never received the vast multicultural, multidisciplinary, multidimensional Naskar Canon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“No risk, no discovery - no discovery, no humanity; had I stayed within the narrow confines of facts and figures, in fear of being shunned by academics, the human race would've never received the vast multicultural, multidisciplinary, multidimensional Naskar Canon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of that book was so radically different from my already published more academic-style work, which had already established me as a neuroscientist, that I considered publishing it under a pseudonym, to prevent it from jeopardizing my scholarly standing -

but that work felt like homecoming to my soul, so I chose to continue my legacy in that newly awakened tone, and then on, my reliance on secondhand research declined drastically, except for when I required occasional empirical data.

Had I stayed within the narrow confines of facts and figures, in fear of being shunned by academics, the human race would've never received the vast multicultural, multidisciplinary, multidimensional Naskar Canon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Don't assume you understand Naskar, unless you've left your seat to the elderly on a bus, joined the religious festivities of a neighbor from a different faith, defended someone's right to worship despite being an atheist yourself, offered a glass of water to someone from a different culture, or sheltered an immigrant family from your nation's fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth