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Grandmother's trembling fingers moved across the veena one final time, each note a prayer in Carnatic tradition. Her grandson filmed everything, promising followers would fund her medicine through viral engagement. But something shifted when Kannadasan's poetry about sacrifice filled the room—she wasn't performing for likes anymore. The comments flooded in, some cruel, others genuinely moved. She realized the algorithm couldn't capture what mattered: the actual weight of preservation, of passing something sacred forward. That evening, she taught her grandson properly, phone forgotten. Real wealth, she whispered, lives in what we share without recording.