Thousands of Hindu temples across the world are using automatic drumming and bell-ringing machines manufactured by an Indian company. In Mint, Samanth Subramanian profiles the company:
Coimbatore: Every morning, before going to his company’s offices to sell metal screens, R. Krushnaswami would visit the Venugopala Swamy temple for a quick prayer. Around 30 years ago, though, an observation he made at the temple, which he would later chalk up to divine providence, pitched the fortunes of RKS Metal Screens into an entirely new direction.
Noticing the priests ringing the temple bells themselves, and thinking about the drummers that many temples find too expensive to retain, Krushnaswami wondered if those tasks could be automated. That was the birth of the invention that RKS calls the auto drum bell.
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