free running life https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/ RSS Feed knowledge as illusion as knowledge https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/knowledge-as-illusion-as-knowledge/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:41:00 +1100 What is knowledge? One candidate answer I have is that it's a set of models and heuristics that help me survive and thrive. In his recent book What is Intelligence?, Blaise Aguera y Arcas defines the objective function I(Intelligence) = f(G, E, A)... ]]> నాన్నగాడి హ్యూరిస్టిక్స్ https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/nannagadi-heuristics/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:30:00 +1100 I just dropped off Noori at the daycare and returned to the silent house.

One of the great dissonances of life is seeing your child in daycare. Seeing your child among other children, as one among the many, as equal to others in that democr... ]]> finding the raga https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/finding-the-raga/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:56:36 +1100 Holy fuck can parenting be exhausting. The good days are extraordinary; And the bad days are.. relentless. Especially when one or more of us are sick, it becomes so draining, so bloody hard, so, there's no escaping that word, exhausting to put her... ]]> blues of suburbia https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/blues-of-suburbia/ Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:22:36 +1100 I often think of Bheemeshwara Sharma. He comes into my thoughts unbidden, a small man projecting fake humility, rheumy eyes darting here and there, looked at with scorn, pity, or distrust by everyone around him. I remember him on those evenings, s... ]]> ..برباد کریں الفاظ میرے https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/barbaad-kare-alfaaz-mere/ Sat, 08 Nov 2025 09:41:08 +1100 There are long moments, on some days in a darkened room, when I'm putting Noori to sleep and as she drifts off and becomes slack, her little fist tightly curled around a toy, the clicking sound I hear as she sucks on her pacifier, her eyes almost ... ]]> मैं बियर हूँ https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/main-beer-hoon/ Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:19:00 +1100 Even after all these years, I have to relearn this every few months- that if I don't come here and blog atleast one a month, my mental faculties dip and I get crankier and progressively more disoriented. And what's worse is that that makes me want... ]]> the art of the probable https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/the-art-of-the-probable/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:09:15 +1100 One of the great pleasures of parenthood, Sravani and I both concur, is seeing Dharani engrossed in something- a few strands of grass she's just plucked, the way a shadow is moving on the wall, a bird that's landed infront of her, the laces of her... ]]> నాన్నల్ని కొనాలి - కొండేపూడి నిర్మల https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/nannalni-konali/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:06:25 +1100 నాన్నల్ని కొనాలి - కొండేపూడి నిర్మల

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నాన్నల్ని కొనాలి, కిలో ఎంత? రొట్టెలకు రేటుంది చూపులకి చులకనవతూ గాలికి ఎగిరే మా బట్టలకీ రేటూంది న... ]]> సంచారం - గోరటి వెంకన్న https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/sanchaaram/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 21:11:01 +1100 సంచారం - గోరటి వెంకన్న

సంచారమే ఎంతో బాగున్నది సంచారమే ఎంతో బాగున్నది దీనంత ఆనందమేదున్నది ఇల్లు పొల్లు లేని ముల్లె మూట లేని వెంబడించే వెర్రి జ్ఞాపకాలు లేని సంచారమే.. జ్ణానం సంచారమే... ]]> यशोमती मैया से बोले नंदलाला https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/yashomati-mayyaa-se-bole-nandlala/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:33:50 +1100 One of the things about being love, I'd assumed, was to have a heightened sense of feeling. You're not happy, you're elated. You're not sad, you're drowning in pain and sorrow. You're not missing them, you're pining for them through every cell in ... ]]> responsibility is a kind of love https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/responsibility-is-a-kind-of-love/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 03:51:59 +1100 Noori fell off the bed on Monday. It was around 9 AM, and she was playing on the bed in our room, and Amma, Sravani, and I were going through the wardrobe and discussing gifts from the previous day's Satyanarayana Vratam. Then, still engrossed in ... ]]> खुद के लिया लिखना भी दूसरो केलिए लिखना ही होता हैं https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/khud-ke-liye-likkhna-bhi-doosron-ke-liye-likhna-hota-hain/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:34:57 +1100 I'm not enthralled by words anymore. "Why do we expect that 26 letters can rearrange themselves in such a way as to unravel the mystery of life and the universe", asks Anand Gandhi in an old TedX talk. For a long, long time I assumed that would ha... ]]> thirty-five is just seventeen-and-a-half into two https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/thirty-five-is-just-seventeen-and-a-half-into-two/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:59:00 +1100 "Narratives tell archetypes where to go; Archetypes tell narratives how to bend", wrote Venkatesh Rao once on Ribbonfarm (apparently riffing off an even more stunning... ]]> कहने सुनने को बोहत हैं अफ़साने https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/kehne-sunne-ko-bahut-hain-afsaane/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:35:47 +1100 A few weeks ago I was walking with Rhia and, rather unexpectedly, had to narrate అస్తిత్వం to her. I remember being so flustered, embarassed, almost ashamed to talk of "my work" and rushed through the story in a haphazard manner. But even in that ... ]]> ధరణి نور https://sirishaditya.eth.limo/dharani-noor/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:20:22 +1100 Yesterday I had the pleasure of eavesdropping on a conversation between you and your amma as we were driving to the kitty in Galston. She was telling you about what you both did through the night, how her pilates class went, that she's pl... ]]>