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Amma's weathered hands guided mine through the Thiruppavai verses, her voice trembling with decades of devotion. Each Sanskrit syllable bloomed like jasmine in our humble home. Years later, I discovered blockchain technology, fascinated by its transparent chains linking strangers into trust. That's when the revelation struck: Carnatic music itself was blockchain. Each raga, a ledger of ancestral knowledge. Every note, immutably connected to centuries before. My digital work preserving these ragas on Stellar felt like honoring Amma's legacy differently, yet profoundly the same. Community, I realized, transcends time and technology.