How long does it take to read Why I Am an Atheist?
Why I Am an Atheist by Bhagat Singh takes about 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 33 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2008. 30 pages, about 8,250 words.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bhagat Singh was not only one of India's greatest freedom fighters and revolutionary socialists, but also one of its early Marxist thinkers and ideologues. He wrote four books and a pamphlet in jail. Unfortunately, all of the four books, smuggled out of jail, have been lost. Luckily the pamphlet, Why I am an Atheist, written a few days or weeks before his martyrdom, was smuggled out to his father, who published it in June 1931 in The People. Bhagat Singh was also asked by an old revolutionary, Ram Saran Das, to write an introduction to a collection of his poems, entitled, Dream Land. Both these works reveal the quality of Bhagat Singh's mind, his wide reading, his capacity to understand complex issues and then present them in an easily understandable manner.
Subjects: Atheism, Philosophy
