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“One of these individuals, whose apparently divine subjective experience of transcendence led to the birth of one of the relatively modern religions of planet earth, was a man named Nanak. In an effort to diminish the contemporary conflicts between the Hindus and the Muslims, he ended up becoming the founding patriarch of yet another circle of religious ideologies �� Sikhism �� a child religion born from the wedlock between Hinduism and Islam.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

“All these stories of Janamsakhi were like an artistic instrument that was yielded more to spread Nanak’s spiritual sovereignty as a mystical prophet than as an effective teacher in flesh and blood. In the midst of ignorance and mystical craving, they provided a simple method to guide people, or rather allure them to a newly formed religious path by sermonizing through stories of mystical non-sense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

“Nanak wanted to preach people that God loves both the Hindus and the Muslims the same way. Believing in his spiritual encounter, he wanted to eliminate the distance between the Hindus and the Muslims by teaching the words of equality and One God. But just like usual, he ended up forming yet another religion which became more and more hardcore with its own rituals and regulations in the hands of the subsequent nine Gurus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Parasite: Revelation of Neuroscience

“My Sikh sisters and brothers proclaim with utter glory and faith “Jo Bole So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal��, I say ”Jo Anubhava So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal��. My translation of the former is “He who utters ‘Great Eternal Truth�� becomes joyous��, while the latter translates to “He who experiences ‘Great Eternal Truth�� becomes joyous��.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

“All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

“Hatred against Minorities has touched heights. 1st Muslims & now Christians. Hindu man erasing painting of Muslim and Christian identity symbols from the street Wall. He filmed it and posted on Instagram where he appreciated from Hindutva society.”
― Indian democracy

“A brief look back in history makes it evident that Jammu and Kashmir’s oppression and colonial exploitation started long before the formation of modern India. Ever since its annexation by the Mughal empire in 1589 AD, Kashmir has never been ruled by Jammu and Kashmir themselves. After the Mughals, the region was ruled by the Afghans (1753-1819), Sikhs (1819-46), and the Dogras (1846-1947) until the Indian and Pakistani states took over.”
― Jammu and Kashmir for JK's

“Khalsa means freedom from hate, Khalistan means nationalizing hate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“How easily women become the first casualty of every conflict, large or small. Rape and gendered segregation are common weapons of war and ethnic cleansing.”
― Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“Successive governments have advised us to forget the past and focus on the future. Put yourself in our shoes for a second. Is it possible to erase the bloody past?”
― Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“I thought all of this will end soon and everything will be normal shortly. But its been thirty years. I'm still waiting for things to get back to normal.”
― Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“In this unending chaos, and with the passage of time since then, the voices of the Kaurs who lived through unimaginable horror and trauma have been silenced. And once I became aware of this silence, I wanted to undo it. I wanted to ensure that the voices of these survivors were heard and their stories remembered.”
― Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“Most of these women were not educated; many had never stepped out of their homes. They responded to the continuum of patriarchy as they had been conditioned to do so - providing thumb impressions to false statements, and in the case of rape survivors, staying silent because they were commanded to to so.”
― Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“Without a male guardian in their lives, and with their mother gone from the house for long hours every day, the children turned wayward and, eventually, dropped out of school.”
― Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“A regular exposure to hurt, humiliation, and social isolation made them sink into a world of their own. Depressed and alone, they began having trouble eating and sleeping as they grew older.”
― Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women

“India, in my opinion, is the only country in the world which actually takes revenge for being beaten by Pakistan by spending money on making films in its own country.”
― India-Pakistan

“Indira Gandhi had recently been assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards and the whole Sikh community of Delhi was paying the price. The Rajiv Gandhi prosecuted nobody for these murders, in spite of much hard evidence identifying many of the killers.”
― Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002