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Amma stood in my London kitchen, hands dusted with rice flour, teaching me to make the murukku she'd crafted in Chennai for fifty years. My daughter watched, mesmerized, as swirls of golden dough transformed into spirals. "This is who we are," Amma whispered, her accent thick with nostalgia. When I posted the photo online, strangers commented "recreate" and "simply adorable." But those words missed the truth. This wasn't about likes. It was about preserving our mother's hands, our grandmother's wisdom, the taste of home compressed into one afternoon. My daughter now knows our story.