Watch: Entrepreneur Harsh Goenka Unveils ‘Digital Mala’; Internet Thinks It’s …

Harsh Vardhan Goenka is one of the most prominent business tycoons in India owning business ventures like CEAT. Having a turnover of over USD 4.7 billion (approx Rs 39,000 crore), he is quite active on X and often shares posts that catch his followers’ attention and become viral. Recently, the Chairman of RPG Enterprises shared a video clip on the microblogging site about a ‘digital mala’ and the internet was amazed.

Harsh Vardhan Goenka shared a video of a tally counter gadget. It has a set of jaap mala (rosary) in it which when turned will automatically be shown on the digital screen of the gadget. Instead of counting it by yourself and remembering it, the gadget makes it easier for you now. The caption read, “Mala Bhi Digital- Waah India (Mala is also digital- Wow India).”

The comment section had various opinions regarding the digital mala. A user commented, “It is quite an old product.”

Another wrote, “The joy in ‘mala’ is in counting and synchronizing. This will take away that.”

A social media user commented, “It is good for accurate counting. These days digitization is converting almost every information into a digital format and the same is being invented in spirituality as well with e-darshan, e-Aarti, and now the digital mala. Hari Om!”

“Nearly certain that this would be made in China. Interestingly, the mala part is there in many religions,” read another comment.

A jaap mala, Jaap maala or simply a mala, which means garland is a loop of prayer beads which is commonly used in religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianism, Jainism and Sikhism as well for counting the ‘japas’ or recitations, mantras, prayers or other sacred phrases.