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Those Chanting Ladies

I happen to work for a Company which has a massive production plant at the outskirt of Hyderabad. The plant has got huge open space with lush green surroundings, long grass, water bodies, tress, and lot of flowers. Sometime, you notice a shrill sound of some bird, and to your surprise you realize that it’s a peacock. Nice feelings being there. Few days back, when I was there, was taking a round of the plant, two gentlemen were accompanying me. Suddenly, I realized that someone is singing a hymn; it struck my ears from a far off place. First I thought that it may be an FM station, playing in some parked vehicles. Then slowly, I realized that it was a hymn not sung by one, but a chorus. Others, with me, also became surprised, as to who it could be inside a manufacturing plant ! And then, lo and behold, we notice a group of village ladies, involved in cutting those tall grasses, singing a very rhythmic hymn, in some unknown village language. The hymn was having typical nodes, ups an