I miss you babi

Priya scrolled through old photos on andal.io, her throat tight. The image showed her grandmother's weathered hands shaping idli batter, that familiar curve of her smile frozen in time. Three years since Amma passed. Her Tamil words still echoed in Priya's Boston kitchen, yet felt increasingly distant. The app connected diaspora members worldwide, their reactions flooding in—some aversion to grief, others frantic to share their own losses. But here, among strangers becoming family, Priya found solace. Comments poured in Tamil and English. A woman in Singapore shared her grandmother's recipe. Another from Toronto simply wrote her name. In this digital embrace, heritage stayed alive.