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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Punjab (NW India) snapshots


Autorickshaws speed by in the background as a Bessie looks for her next meal of street trash (Delhi, India)




View of the dome--from the top of The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine (Amritsar, India)





One of the unique features of the Sikh temples is their dining room. All are welcome--all religions and no religion--any caste--and breakfast, lunch, and dinner, are served free. At the Golden Temple, they serve up to 50,000 people PER DAY. To feed this many people, there is definitely a giant operation behind-the-scenes to make it all happen. I wandered into the kitchen and took some photos (Golden Temple, Amritsar, India)


These two use long metal rods to flip chapatis. The cooktop is massive: about 1m x 1.5m (Golden Temple, Amritsar, India)



Many activities take place on the floor. Part of the prep kitchen (Golden Temple, Amritsar, India)



The Golden Temple at night (Amritsar, India)










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