Langar: The Communal Meal

Why this matters here

The Pluralism Project’s overview of langar describes the Sikh communal meal open to visitors without regard to religion, caste, wealth, or status, expressing equality, hospitality, community, and the oneness of humankind through seva. The World We Make Together places that arrangement beside institutional budgets and waiting rooms to ask whether care is treated as central work or as inconvenience someone else absorbs. The source explains a living practice; the book’s inference is about how seating and service encode whose flourishing counts.