# 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.**

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#### 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](mailto: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](https://2014p.com/codex.html) — twenty-plus cross-linked essays, free to read in any order.

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*Sāmatvārtha Sessions · The Missing Curriculum · invite v0.1 · May 2026 · evolving artefact, open to feedback.*