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MUSIC! It has never just been something I listened to; it has been something I lived through.

Hindi music, especially, has always felt like home. Since childhood, every emotion I experienced came with a song attached to it. Happiness had a chorus. Sadness had a haunting melody. Even ordinary afternoons had background scores in my head. I once thought this habit of assigning songs to moments was just the child in me being dramatic. But life changed. People changed. Circumstances changed. And yet, the one constant remained, music.

Even now, as I write this, my favourite genr...