Rhymes with Hunger: The Story of the Langar@DU

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When Professor Marji Karish and Dilpreet Jammu co-developed a course at the University of Denver, the final exam was a meal. Their students spent a semester planning, organizing, and serving a full Langar /LUN-ger/, the Sikh tradition of a free community meal, for anyone on campus who wanted a plate.

Almost none of them were Sikh. They chopped onions, rolled burritos, hauled folding tables across the lawn, and picked up event management and the Sikh principle of selfless service in the same semester.

What sticks is the surprise in the students' voices. They signed up for a class project and came away talking about breaking down barriers and friendships beyond religion. Langar welcomes everyone to the same table, no questions asked, and there's a difference between reading about that and standing in it.

Rhymes of Hunger is a short film about the oldest form of community building there is, and about what happens when young people run into it for the first time.

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