Indian Lunch Box Delivery System

India s commercial capital is a teeming metropolis of nearly 20 million boasting a sparkling international air terminal and a sleek new metro system swanky furniture stores and bollywood starlets.

Indian lunch box delivery system.

Just as the indian railways are insatiably busy and incredibly complex so is the dabba s delivery system ferrying out an estimated 80 million lunches a year. With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey. The observer indian food and drink time for tiffin. The dabbawalas also spelled dabbawallas or dabbawallahs called tiffin wallahs in older sources constitute a lunchbox delivery and return system that delivers hot lunches from homes and restaurants to people at work in india especially in mumbai the lunchboxes are picked up in the late morning delivered predominantly using bicycles and railway trains and returned empty in the afternoon.

These dabbawalas move 400 000 lunch boxes every day using trains and bicycles. A mistaken delivery in mumbai s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. The history of india s lunch in a box how a legacy of the british raj has become a staple of indian culture read the bombay lunchbox recipes. A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box.

Code the mostly illiterate crew of deliverymen relies on a color coding system to route lunches to the proper recipients. Tiffins in the wild. The 5 000 strong force of dabbawalas deliver home cooked food to about 200 000 customers throughout mumbai. And business is growing at a steady rate of 5 10 a year.

This is all part of a century old tradition known as the dabbawallah. Gautam singh ap. Directed by ritesh batra. Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong.

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