This is all part of a century old tradition known as the dabbawallah.
Indian lunch box delivery system.
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.
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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Tiffins in the wild.
Lunch boxes are marked in several ways.
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Dabba means a box usually a cylindrical tin or aluminium container from persian.
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The dabbawallahs even deliver in the pouring rain or during political strife.
The closest meaning of the dabbawala in english would be the tiffin box delivery man.
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And no better example of this.
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.
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This cbs news story says two main reasons for the success of the dabbawalas.
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.
A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box.