A new review of 'The Fountainhead'
Revisiting old books ‘Fountainhead’ of cognition: Good, bad, and indifferent By Sonali Maokar-Kelapure I must agree that in her all sincere endeavour, Ayn Rand is really successful in proving, “At the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man’s nature and of life’s potential, and, if sufficiently held on, the fire takes one to higher realms.” Reading ‘The Fountainhead’ was like a total brainwash. It takes us out of our sluggish, stagnated knowledge of philosophy of life. It brings us down to earth where life is for living and not for thinking. The illusion of so-called knowledge, in her words -- second-hand knowledge -- gets washed off. If the story is set apart (because characters and story can be twisted from any possible perspective), the thought presented by the author is truly original. It takes courage to jot down the thoughts in their nakedness. I liked the lines in introduction, “It is not in the nature of man -- nor of any living entity -- to star...