Bengal Famine Quotes

“ঐতিহাসিক ও সমাজতাত্ত্বিকরা স্বাধীনতা-উত্তর পশ্চিম বাংলার সমস্যার প্রধানত যে ধরনের বিশ্লেষণ করেছেন, যা পরে পড়েছি, তা একটি বিরাট অপূর্ণতার শিকার। পঞ্জাবের সঙ্গে তুলনা করে বলা হয়েছে, ওরা কেমন নিজেদের উদ্যোগে ঝটপট দেশভাগের সমস্যা পেরিয়ে সুখী-সমৃদ্ধ জীবনে উঠে আসতে পেরেছে, বাঙালিরা পারেনি কারণ তারা উদ্যমহীন, পরের ঘাড়ে দায়িত্ব চাপাতে তাদের জুড়ি নেই। এই স্বভাবনিন্দুকরা সময়ের পটভুমিকাটুকু ভুলে থাকতে চান। দুর্ভিক্ষ ও যুদ্ধজনিত সামাজিক-আর্থিক চাপ বাঙালি অস্তিত্বকে, সেই সঙ্গে অস্তিত্বচেতনাকেও নড়বড়ে করে দিয়েছিল, যে সংকট পঞ্জাবকে ছুঁতে পারেনি। উদ্বাস্তুদের জন্য পঞ্জাবে কেন্দ্রীয় সরকার থেকে যে-পরিমাণ সহায়তার ব্যবস্থা করা হয়েছিল, তার সিকি পরিমাণও বাঙালি শরনার্থীদের ভাগ্যে জোটেনি। মহাযুদ্ধ থেকে পঞ্জাবের আখেরে লাভই হয়েছেঃ ফৌজে-যোগ-দেওয়া পঞ্জাবকুল তাঁদের বিত্তের সম্ভার বাড়াতে পেরেছিলেন, বাঙালিরা যা আদৌ পারেননি।”
― Ashok Mitra, আপিলা-চাপিলা

“Hitler's holocaust took over 6 million lives, hence he is rightly deemed a monster, but the british empire uprooted 15 million people from their homes, massacred millions and starved four million people to death. What about that?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Thank You Hitler (The Sonnet)

Thank you Hitler for showing the worst of humanity,
I am sorry that we couldn't place you on a pedestal.
Things would've been different if you were not a nobody,
Particularly if you had a background royally honorable.
Apparently if you have an empire to your name,
You can get away with the most heinous of atrocities.
If you have that blue blood running through your veins,
Tyranny, oppression, are deemed as acts of great dignity.
The common notion is, everything nazi is sick and sinister,
At the same time, everything british is great and glorious,
Despite the fact that it was the british empire that was,
An international force of evil unlike the nazi bastards.
Nazism is an enemy of humanity, there is no doubt.
Only if we felt so for the empire as we do for the krauts!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“White Fragility Sonnet
(A Record of White Crimes Against Humanity)

Whiteness has done more harm to the world than good,
Till you look past your whiteness, you cannot be human.
Orange 'n musky trash of white privilege diss diversity,
What else would you expect from colonial descendants!

Every generation has its fraudsters like Edison,
Every generation has trashy maniacs like Columbus.
Every generation has war-merchants like Kissinger,
Every generation has its churchillian doofus.

White people tortured the Africans,
White people booted Native Americans;
White people massacred the Vietnamese,
White people lynched and looted the Indians.

White people caused genocide after genocide,
Yet you still boast about white superiority.
You proclaim that people of color are inferior,
While white society is the epitome of savagery.

If devil had a color, it would be white -
Yet I say, color is nonsense, we're all equal.
I am human enough to give you place beside me,
All I expect is that, a human behaves human.

After all the heartaches inflicted by white people,
A 100 generations worth apology won't be sufficient.
Yet I am human enough to declare, we are all equal;
All I ask is that, humans finally behave human.

They say, I'm spreading hate against the whites;
To which I say, human making is my mission.
There is no hope for humanitarian uplift,
Unless you renounce all fragile intoleration.

If you wanna learn about tolerance, ask a person of color,
How do you even tolerate the sight of white people, when
the wrongs done to you by whites are unparalleled in history!
You'll realize, there's no mythical secret to integration,
For ages we've known no other life but of inclusivity.

Middle East, India and Far East,
have been the melting pot of integration,
before the whites even knew what integration is.
Yet you say white people are superior - so be it;
Cowards always take refuge in fairytales,
to justify their fragility and prejudice.

If you wanna be a decent human being,
Never draw moral parameters from the west.
No matter whether you're born of east or west,
Remember, you are human first, then all else.

To recognize diversity is science,
To celebrate diversity is humanity.
To recognize privilege is common sense,
To abandon privilege builds human society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“God Save The King, Sonnet
(New UK Anthem)

God save our gracious King,
Long live our noble King!
Even if he is a philanderer,
God save our righteous King!

Send him victorious,
happy and glorious,
ruler of the free world,
even if he is ignominious!

Thy choicest gifts in store,
on him be pleased to pour,
let starving natives starve,
so our king may rightly soar.

May he defend our laws,
and ever give us cause,
to be but proud morons,
merrying over massacres.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Humpty Dumpty (Colonial Sonnet)

Humpty Dumpty sat on a throne,
he made a career of divide-n-rule.
Whole west found a savior in a fool,
as he was anointed the royal mule.

He smuggled food from starving natives,
for fighting troops were far more worthy.
Adolf was designated the villain supremo,
while he was the free world's beloved Humpty.

It's fault of the natives to "breed like rabbits",
he was right to be their judge and executioner.
After all, human rights mean rights of the pale,
freedom and equality don't apply to the darker.

Humpty Dumpty was ready with his cigar,
to fight the invaders on the beaches.
Sure he was the right nut for the job,
expertise lies in centuries of practice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations