Idols

Grandmother's weathered hands traced the bronze deity in our ancestral Chennai home. Each morning during Thiruppavai season, she'd sing those ancient verses, her voice carrying generations of devotion through these whitewashed walls. When she proposed digitizing our family's sacred records on the Stellar blockchain, I hesitated. Heritage felt too precious for technology. Yet watching her eyes light up as we immortalized our rituals eternally—accessible to cousins across continents—something shifted within me. The idol remained in our puja room, unchanged and eternal. But now our stories were preserved forever, connecting us across time and distance. Some bridges between tradition and progress are worth building.