“God created Buddha too”—not as a contradiction, but as a revelation.
In this profoundly ambitious and stylistically unorthodox work, Subhash Babu presents a tapestry of poetic reflections, political allegories, philosophical contemplations, and raw existential inquiry. God Created Buddha Too is not a conventional poetry collection, nor does it lend itself easily to categorization. It is a spiritual scream and a philosophical whisper, a surreal mosaic where mythology, modern history, personal anguish, and cosmic irony collide.
Structured as a succession of standalone prose-poetic pieces—53 in total—this volume spans topics as vast as nuclear war and autistic perception, as intimate as memory and nakedness, and as ethereal as enlightenment and extinction. Each entry is at once a poem, a philosophical anecdote, and a meditative riddle.
Thematic Labyrinths: From Silence to Apocalypse
At its core, the book orbits around the fragility of existence and the horrors of man’s descent into violence, offset by moments of divine intuition and transcendental yearning. From Anguish to Prince of Silence, Babu’s voice oscillates between the visceral and the visionary. In HIS STORY, he critiques the whitewashing of brutal histories. In Autism, he juxtaposes cinematic illusion with neurodivergent truth. In Explosion & Extinction, the historical becomes mythical—a horse whispers love in the aftermath of atomic silence.
A haunting motif runs through the book: the contrast between weapon and wave, between cold machinery and fluid nature. Pieces like Yoke Times, CEO, and Flags, Tags & a Barb speak with bitter satire to modern systems of oppression, mindless conformity, and the commodification of humanity.
Language as Ritual: Raw, Experimental, and Lyrical
Babu’s language is deliberately fractured, incantatory, and highly visual. At times, it feels as if prose is being dismantled from within, stretched beyond form to approximate the psychic and symbolic turmoil of the subjects he wrestles with.
The lineation is irregular, the punctuation minimal. His is a voice as much felt as read—invoking silence as much as it does speech. There is a cadence that mimics sacred chanting, even as it traverses violent terrains. His use of English is unique: less academic than prophetic, less polished than primal, as if language itself is an instrument being played from a place of deeper knowing.
This effect is amplified through allusions to mythology (Indian and global), religious archetypes, political figures, and artistic icons. Ophelia Won’t Drown, for instance, reimagines Shakespeare through feminist metaphysics and existential anguish, while The Raven offers a mythic retelling of a soldier’s transformation from killer to cosmic musician.
The Sacred and the Profane
One of the most compelling aspects of this book is its dual devotion to both divine silence and human scream. Babu’s “Buddha” is not a passive monk, but a presence etched in blood and dance, in footprints across the battlefield of existence. God, in this universe, is creator of both light and shadow; evolution is not progress but pain carried through aeons.
In Earth Sermon, Ascents of Fish, and Snail’s Liberation, Babu returns to the body, to primal experience, to the evolution of consciousness through suffering. In Black Bone, Reading a Dark Face, and MILLIONS OF YEARS ARE NOT ENOUGH, there is a palpable indictment of collective injustice, racism, classism, and cultural blindness.
Yet, through the despair, the metaphysical hum never vanishes. The reader is reminded that beyond the violence of civilization lies the potential for stillness—a Prince of Silence watching from a distance.
Conclusion: A Work of Sacred Dissonance
God Created Buddha Too is not a book for casual reading. It is meant to be sat with, struggled through, meditated upon. It is a confrontation—a work of sacred dissonance that demands the reader bring not only attention but intention. There is grief here. There is absurdity. But most importantly, there is truth—delivered in a voice that is at once political, poetic, and prophetic.
Subhash Babu offers us not solutions, but sacred disruptions. In a world dulled by distraction, this book reads like a raw nerve exposed to divine light.
📖 God Created Buddha Too
🖋 Author: Subhash Babu
📚 Published by Evincepub Publishing (2023)
🆔 ISBN: 978-93-5673-561-3
🛒 Available via Amazon, Flipkart, Kindle, Kobo, and Goodreads
