Ban!
I oppose banning any author or their work. I even oppose banning hate-speech. Freedom of expression is the most basic foundation of any democracy. However, there is one author whose work should be banned in India. And that author is Ayn Rand. 
Of course, I say that jokingly. Still, its my studied opinion that large swathes of student population in India are members of the “The Unlikeliest Cult in History.” I have spoken to a number of our students in the last seven months. Give them an opportunity and they will start spouting words like objectivism, individualism, incentives, and the other paraphernelia. (Hey, I had to look up Wikipedia to know that Rand called her philosophy objectivism.) Ask them to give an example or describe in context what they exactly mean by incentives or individualism and all the sand walls come crumbling down.
For I have questioned the one that must not be questioned, the true leader of the masses and saviour of the world, I can now rot in communist hell.
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Your blog is a very engrossing read. This post however touched a cord… Ayn Rand should be banned ! There’re more “swathes” who misinterpret even before understanding what the woman’s saying… not that when you eventually understand her, it makes any “rational” sense
I was myself carried away by her writing , when I was 16. But, I left the frenzy behind with my teenage
. I don’t know whether you’re aware of this… but I’ve come across some ppl still illusioned by Rand in their 40s !!
whoops! i dint review my prev comment before posting it .. i put in the ‘however’ in “This post however touched a cord”.. by mistake
.. pls replace ‘however’ with ‘especially’ 