The Many Ways of Being Human

4.7

The Sikhs

To reach the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, one goes down a staircase, and the building has four doors, one facing each direction. Not a hundred steps away, people sit in long rows on the floor and eat the same food from the same steel plate. The chapter traces how a teaching about five hundred years old became a people, through a book, a turban, and that kitchen.