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Parashar21 reached a milestone today, with a version that has reached the limits of its current architecture. The Rashi and Navamsha charts and the Vimshottari Dasha sequences are now being generated correctly — until, of course, an error is found. Gochar and Ashtakavarga are also being calculated, but for the moment I am leaving them outside the analysis and interpretation engine. The NotebookLM-based interpretation engine now works with two clean text corpora, from Braha and Harihar Majumdar. Unless NotebookLM upgrades its underlying LLM, there is little more that I can do at that end. The interpretations are reasonable, and any further improvement will probably come from experimenting with better prompts. At this stage, neither the computational engine nor the corpus can be meaningfully improved without changing the architecture itself. So this seems like a good place to stop. And so, on the day of the Autumn Equinox, I offer this labour of love at the feet of Goddess Saraswati, wit...

 Kanyā Saṅkrānti when the Sun enters Kanyā, and Bengal remembers Viśvakarmā, the divine architect. But this day belongs also to Manasā  serpent goddess of hidden knowledge, instinct and the powers beneath the visible world. So, for today, a Jugalmūrti: Viśvakarmā and Manasā — the maker of tools and the keeper of mysteries.

  Universities are very good at teaching the Known Knowns -- the accumulated knowledge of disciplines such as literature, mathematics, science, engineering and management. Increasingly, they also try to prepare students for the Known Unknowns: AI, climate change, sustainability, geopolitics and other challenges that we can already see approaching. But what about the Unknown Unknowns — the changes that we cannot anticipate because we do not yet know what they are? That question led me to TU3 -- The University of Unknown Unknowns , a thought experiment in curriculum design. Instead of trying to predict tomorrow's subjects, TU3 asks whether students can be equipped with capabilities that remain useful whatever tomorrow brings: to THINK critically, COMPREHEND deeply, and CONSTRUCT physically. These three abilities form the TU3 Tripod, a common core around which conventional undergraduate disciplines can be built. The university may be imaginary; the question behind it is quite real. Ex...

 Presentation delivered at the Education Summit hosted by Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, at Taj Bengal on 3rd September 2026