Ayurveda has produced extraordinary clinicians, scholars, and teachers across centuries. It has not yet produced the kind of fearless, intellectually honest reformer who will say what needs to be said about what is actually wrong — and stay standing afterwards.

Who is John Galt of Ayurveda? is a sustained, unsparing examination of the dysfunction that contemporary Ayurveda refuses to name directly: the curriculum that does not prepare graduates for the patients they will see, the research culture that mistakes compliance for evidence, the institutional defensiveness that treats honest critique as betrayal, and the social media ecosystem that rewards confident misinformation over rigorous scholarship.

Drawing on Ayn Rand's figure of the principled outsider who withdraws rather than compromise — and inverting that question for a tradition that cannot afford withdrawal — this book argues for the critical insider: the practitioner who stays, who dissents, and who holds the tradition to the standards it claims for itself.

Written for Ayurveda graduates, postgraduate scholars, faculty, and anyone who has sat in a classroom or a clinic and felt the gap between what Ayurveda promises and what its institutions currently deliver, this is not a critique from outside the tradition. It is a demand from within it.

Topics addressed include: the NCISM curriculum and its implementation failures, the faculty quality crisis, the research methodology vacuum, institutional defensiveness and its costs, the hepatotoxicity debate and how Ayurveda's response revealed its epistemological anxieties, social media fallacies and retroactive claiming, and what genuine reform would actually require.

Published by Astanga Wellness Pvt. Ltd., Hubli, Karnataka.