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My grandmother's veena sat gathering dust until I filmed myself learning her ragas on my phone. The clip went viral, strangers sending love from Toronto, Singapore, Melbourne. Each view felt like finding family I never knew existed. The platform paid me enough to finally visit Chennai, to sit at her feet properly, to absorb decades of knowledge she'd carried through displacement and time. Now I teach online, my small apartment transformed into a concert hall where the Tamil diaspora reconnects with something essential. Through screens and across oceans, we're weaving our story back together, one note at a time.