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The Fountainhead - Cornucopia of Objectivism

The Fountainhead, a book by Ayn Rand, which I use to avoid whenever I happen to buy or get some new books. So what now made me start reading this book is due to lot of people's glimmer? To be frank I used to have this attitude towards Ayn Rand's work "they are boring", I concluded this because when I was in my high school I happen to catch this book and later stopped reading it because it sounded too boring to me in fact it was too descriptive to me.
But now after so many suggestions I got myself this book and started today in the morning and believe it I read it whole day in my class hours too. The story is so aspiring that it eventually takes you off and makes you muse for what all is there in it. Well I just started it and hope to finish it before diwali (as its an agreement between me and the serendipity girl).
What this book contains is it teaches you how to redefine yourself and find your own identity (till where I read) and I will update as and on I read more of it and share what I learn. Before I end this blog I leave below an excerpt from the book, which makes you muse all over again.

“.... Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important -- what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why are anyone and everyone right-- so long as it’s not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic -- and only of addition at else? There must be reason. I don’t know. I’ve never known it. I’d like to understand"

Take 2

Well what I am goanna write today is a bit different than the usual long confusing essays (that I write), today I am just goanna pen down my responses to the questions that my younger bro asks.

Adil: Bhai what do you think of the latest flick of SRK "DON”?
Me: I think what farhan akhter is making is making his child fantasy come true. This guy grew watching that and now he has his own flavor of don for today's generation. I would have appreciated if directors like J.P.Dutta making it because the movie didn’t inspire them during their days as it did to farhan akhter. What we will be seeing in the new don is latest cars, skinny females, high skyscrapers, cool technology and blah blah. What we will be missing will be the essence of the whole story because when you get all those cool and sexy things on screen the story gets diluted; there is not much of story to see (and get carried away with materials in the movie). So I don’t have any expectations it to be a blockbuster but would watch it for time pass and nothing more.

Adil: Hmm bhai you aren’t anti SRK?
Me: Absolutely not. I think apart from acting he has more content in general. He is eloquent in speaking and answers the right way when questioned.

Adil: Apart from movies & SRK what do you think a youngster like me should concentrate on?
Me: I wouldn't say studies (though essential) all time but concentrate on your vision. What would you be after 4 years? An IT company employee, a entrepreneur or take up ms and then research...whatever but please frame your identity, its important and if you happen to fall into a relationship...see that it doesn't slip away from you.

Adil: Bhai don’t you think falling in love is crazy, not meant for a goal oriented kid like me?
Me: Absolutely not, I believe saying "I LOVE YOU” is the craziest thing (you can only say that when your not in your senses). But loving a person is not crazy, though our religion has different view about it, but try to balance both of your halves i.e. be a good a Muslim and natural human being.

Adil: Oh ok, I have a long way for that. What is your favorite book?
Me: "THE ICON” and you know why?

Adil: Ya Steve jobs, ok then what’s the difference between Steve and bill gates?
Me: That’s a good one. Both of them started their race almost at the same time but eventually gates cherished that’s because he values his friends and Steve doesn’t. Bill has been loyal to all his friends till now but on other side Steve thought friends to be like seasons. He gets acquainted with you and when you are no more in need to him, you are out. Steve simply doesn’t sticks he is more like a nomad. This is why Microsoft is on the tall stand.

Adil: Now I got that, it makes a point. Coming out of all this, why do you write blog?
Me: I don’t know now!! Maybe I write because most of the time it’s me and myself only, so I need to speak out and maybe that’s why I write blog. The other dimension of it is maybe I want to convey some message to people out there (like I am a real bad writer) and read their responses and evaluate myself.

Adil: That’s crazy, how did live for about 12 years in hostel? I couldn't do it.
Me: You couldn’t do it maybe because you joined much late and then did like the way when compared to the day school. But for me I got used to it and I could only live like that all myself with my friends. And let me correct you I think till today its goanna be straight 16 years and I know what does that 16 years mean to me, I can account for each year. It will take whole life to speak about it because it had everything emotion, tragedy, comedy and action (still no climax and end).

Well after this my bro wanted to study (he is a major fruit) so we had to end this conversation and I believe if you think there is anything wrong with my statements or me please help me by correcting.

Shaastra

Well (Ya again, will work on that to avoid using it again) this year I made it to the Shaastra 2006. It has become a pilgrimage kind of act for me because from past three years I have been making visit to this holy (technical) land. What’s different this year? I never imagined that students from all over south pay a visit here to get the feel of the IIT-M campus and then at the end of the day bag some cool stuff and prizes. As usual day 1 was jam-packed and I was late again (being late form past three years for all days of Shaastra) to catch up any event. What I did this year was that I attended seminars by so and so of Indian technological band, to be frank in the past years I never attended these kinds of seminar thinking that some techno rishi out there will be speaking to his disciples in his own language which only those disciples can understand. But the myth proved to be wrong; these seminars could be understood by an average intellectual kid (like me, below average) also. So all the day I was doing was attending seminars or trying to get glimpse of events that were held nearby.
What’s different about the Shaastra is that the moment you enter IIT-M campus all students (non IITians) tend to behave like IITians and that’s funny. They burrow out the whole intellectual within them to just answer the prelims question and then get exhausted eventually giving chance to the IITians to reach in the final of the events. The irony here is that students believe that they can crack up but the thing is the potential what lies within an affiliated college student and an IITians is the major difference and I believe that is the reason why we witness events finals to be confrontation among IITians. Shaastra – the spirit of engineering, you know what makes me question is that why can’t we have our college symposium names in Hindi? My department symposium is called impulse but then again I believe we are losing out racial sense. That’s the reason why Shaastra seems to be cool to me rather than Impulse. As this is goanna be my last year of paying a visit to Shaastra, I feel sad because being the last opportunity I am not able to visit all days (due to my very low attendance). So what I have visited today makes me sum up my experience at the Shaastra and to be frank the seminars were awesome. These seminars weren’t the ones like my college favorite “APPA KUTTI” ones where we are forced to sit in the auditorium to hear, what was different out here was that there was more of practical sense, as the speaker was talking behind him they were these videos played in accordance to his subject. These videos were of experiments they conducted in their laboratories and this seems to be very exciting as you are just not hearing but seeing too.