How Sikh Chefs Feed 100,000 People At The Gurudwara Bangla Sahib Temple In New Delhi, India
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as an example of efficient, machine-assisted mass feeding of people for free.
What it is
Insider Food visits the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib temple in New Delhi, which feeds tens of thousands of people free daily and over 100,000 on holidays. It shows the machines and big-batch cooking that make this possible.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2024 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec atonse · 2025-01 · on “The Sikh Practice of Langar, a Free Meal Where Everyone Is Equal”
Even though I am Hindu by birth (but not at all religious, personally), I always admire Sikhs culture of service. I want to post this video[1] because I think the HN crew will appreciate this. When you feed people for free, more people show up. So instead of turning them away, what do you do? You use machines and efficiency to feed MORE people. It is absolutely amazing. 1: [this video] When I think about how our schools (in America) mostly feed kids processed frozen sad looking food, I think about videos like this. Where there's a will, there's a way... to feed kids and others fresh food with real ingredients with the help of automation.
Cites CHB0403085482 · 2024-07 · on “Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian farmed salmon annually”
Meatless [this video] How Sikh Chefs Feed 100,000 People At The Gurudwara Bangla Sahib Temple In New Delhi, India
Cites SequoiaHope · 2025-12 · on “IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off”
The Sikhs in India run multiple facilities across the country that each can serve 50,000-100,000 free meals a day. It doesn’t even take much in the form of resources, and we could do this in every major city in the US yet we still don’t do it. It’s quite disheartening. [this video]