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Putting faith in reason

11 Comments Published by varuna April 1st, 2005 in Ayn Rand / Objectivism

For my niece’s 21st birthday, I gave her a copy of Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness. The morning papers were filled with the hysteria of a world gone mad: bloody communal rights, war, corruption, mass suicides, political vandalism – and I thought: here’s a book that will illumine the world for her, help her […]

Ayn Rand Centenary Page

1 Comment Published by Yazad Jal March 31st, 2005 in Ayn Rand / Objectivism

New Delhi’s Liberty Institute has a superb page on Ayn Rand to commemorate her centenary year. To Ayn Rand, I owe two debts. Her writings showed the hollowness of my agnosticism and made me an atheist. From her I learnt that morality needs no conception of God. And she goaded me to have the courage […]

The Ayn Rand Century

21 Comments Published by Yazad Jal February 2nd, 2005 in Ayn Rand / Objectivism

Today is the 100th birthday of Ayn Rand. I enjoyed all her books, fiction and non-fiction; was a founding member of the New Delhi Ayn Rand club; and well, owe a lot of my learnings in libertarianism to her. I grew up with browsing through her books in my parents library. When my father […]

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