Avyaya — IndeclinablesBhūmi — The EarthBrahma — The SacredDhī — Intellect and CognitionDig — Direction and SpaceKāla — TimeKṣatriya — The WarriorManuṣya — The HumanNānārtha — PolysemyNaraka — The InfernalNāṭya — PerformancePātāla — The UnderworldPura — The CityŚabdādi — Sound and LanguageŚaila — MountainsSaṅkīrṇa — The MixedSiṃhādi — AnimalsŚūdra — Craft and ServiceSvarga — The CelestialVaiśya — Commerce and AgricultureVanauṣadhi — Forest and MedicineVāri — WaterViśeṣyanighna — AdjectivesVyoma — The Sky
thinker
Ivan Illich
# economic
The sharpest institutional critic the West produced - his dissections of schooling, medicine, and economic growth argue that modern institutions systematically destroy the autonomous competence they claim to produce - a critique that hits differently once you've read Dharampal.
thinker
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
# trade
The philosopher of fragility who argues that modern civilization traded a robust, decentralized wisdom tradition for brittle expert systems - and that this trade is actively destroying us while we congratulate ourselves on progress.