The Western critical canon has been writing the same diagnosis in fragments for 150 years. One Indic frame held the same diagnosis as a single unified architecture much earlier. This session puts them in the same room.
Sāmatvārtha Sessions · The Missing Curriculum · poster v0.1
Indian universities, schools, and policy classrooms are still teaching a 19th-century operating system — neoclassical economics, mechanistic management, separated disciplines — at the exact moment that operating system is visibly failing on planetary scale. The polycrisis (climate, attention, inequality, institutional decay, AI risk) is not a list of separate problems. It is the predicted output of a single mis-shaped substrate. This bootcamp is the bridge between the contemporary Western critical canon naming this in fragments, and the Indic frame that held the same diagnosis as one unified architecture much earlier.
Pick the length that fits your slot. Same architecture; different depth. We can also adapt for self-paced web, recorded video, or guided workshop formats — whichever serves the audience best.
Assembly slot, opening keynote, or recruitment for the full session. Introductory walk through the diagnosis and the architecture. Youtube Link.
Fits one guest-lecture period (or a flexible 45–60 min slot with discussion). Choose Half A (the diagnosis on its own), Half B (the architecture on its own), or a compressed walk through both.
Back-to-back, or split 2 × 45 across two sessions. The whole arc — Western diagnosis, the pivot, and the Indic synthesis.
The session is designed to land for all four archetypes in the same room. Each gets something different from the same body. Each closes with a one-sentence seat.
Vocabulary for unease you already feel. Permission to think at the paradigm level, not just the policy level. A reading list that opens a 150-year canon.
A cross-disciplinary diagnostic that crosses economics, philosophy, ecology, computer science, and design. Pedagogical ammunition for the slot you have been quietly wanting in your curriculum.
Coverage of contemporary critical theory + an Indic-darśana bridge, mappable to learning outcomes labelled interdisciplinary, critical thinking, ethics, sustainability, systems thinking.
A frame for why well-intentioned operational work keeps producing unintended consequences — and a Pañca-Ṛṇa-aware substrate to build differently on.
The session is an evolving artefact. The artefacts below grow alongside it. Start with the invite if you're cold, the handout if you're considering hosting, the slide deck if you want to see the visual arc.
A one-page teaser — the hook, what you walk away with, formats, and how to host one.
Sendable as an email, a flyer, or a LinkedIn announcement. Under 400 words.
The full institutional proposal + participant handout — Half A diagnosis, the pivot, Half B architecture.
Includes the glossary, reading list, and detailed format options. v0.2 · May 2026.
The full session as a navigable slide deck — 16 modules, 130 slides, one in-deck module jumper.
Keyboard nav: ← → · Space · Home / End · i for the module index.
Write in if you want to slot the bootcamp into a course, an assembly, a faculty development hour, or a workshop. No fee for accredited educational institutions; travel and a token honorarium, if your institution covers them, are sufficient. We're equally happy to adapt the artefact for a self-paced web version, a recorded video series, or a guided book-club format.