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Grandmother hummed while I filmed her hands grinding spices, the kitchen bathed in golden afternoon light. Her voice trembled with Kannadasan's forgotten verses, melodies my mother never learned. The video bloomed on the platform. Strangers paused their scrolling. Comments flooded in—people recognizing their own grandmothers in her weathered fingers. Money arrived, enough to publish her recipes and songs. But the real treasure was unexpected: messages from distant relatives, suddenly awakened to what they'd almost lost. We sat together that evening, her songs finally echoing beyond our quiet home, our heritage alive again through the very screens we'd once feared would erase us.