Sāmatvārtha Sessions · The Missing Curriculum
A 90-minute bootcamp on contemporary sensemaking, with an Indic synthesis
The polycrisis — climate breakdown, attention collapse, inequality, institutional decay, AI risk — is not a list of separate problems. It is the predicted output of an obsolete operating system most of us were never told we were running. The Western critical canon has spent 150 years naming this in fragments. The Indic frame held the same diagnosis as a single unified architecture much earlier — but the colonial-academic transmission pattern flattened it into "culture" and stripped its operational content.
This session is the bridge.
What you walk out with
- A working vocabulary for the unease you already feel — Moloch · Goodhart's Law · enshittification · Conway Debt · the metastory fork.
- A diagnostic that crosses economics, philosophy, computer science, ecology, and design — without staying inside any one discipline.
- A coherent architecture from the Indic frame — Ṛ → Ṛta → Ṛṇa · Kṣetra · Karma · Kula · Pañca Ṛṇa · the embedded-economy mandala.
- A reading list that opens a 150-year canon (Polanyi · Ostrom · McGilchrist · Schmachtenberger · Graeber · Doctorow · Pandey · Malhotra).
- A seat — student, faculty, builder, or steward — in the next civilisational settlement.
Who it's for
Students looking for the curriculum they were not given. Faculty looking for the cross-disciplinary slot they have been quietly wanting. Curriculum decision-makers looking to add a contemporary sensemaking module without a course rewrite. Founders, policy people, designers, and stewards looking for a framework that names why well-intentioned work keeps producing unintended consequences — and what to design differently.
Formats
- 15-minute trailer — assembly slot, opening keynote, recruitment for the full session
- 45-minute single-slot lecture — fits one guest-lecture period
- 90-minute full bootcamp — back-to-back, or split 2 × 45 across two sessions
Delivered in English. Sanskrit terms introduced and translated as we go. No prior reading required.
To host one
Write in at hello@2014p.com. No fee for accredited educational institutions; travel and a token honorarium, if your institution covers them, are sufficient. We also adapt the artefact for self-paced web, recorded video, residential modules, or guided book-club formats if the institutional context calls for it.
To go deeper before deciding
The full handout sits in this same folder. The open-source Codex behind the session is at 2014p.com/codex.html — twenty-plus cross-linked essays, free to read in any order.
Sāmatvārtha Sessions · The Missing Curriculum · invite v0.1 · May 2026 · evolving artefact, open to feedback.