Indian Lunch Box Delivery System

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Indian lunch box delivery system. This is all part of a century old tradition known as the dabbawallah. Ny times the code explained. Gautam singh ap. This cbs news story says two main reasons for the success of the dabbawalas.

And business is growing at a steady rate of 5 10 a year. The closest meaning of the dabbawala in english would be the tiffin box delivery man. The dabbawallahs even deliver in the pouring rain or during political strife. And no better example of this.

Code the mostly illiterate crew of deliverymen relies on a color coding system to route lunches to the proper recipients. These dabbawalas move 400 000 lunch boxes every day using trains and bicycles. 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. Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong.

With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey. 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. Directed by ritesh batra. The 5 000 strong force of dabbawalas deliver home cooked food to about 200 000 customers throughout mumbai.

Tiffins in the wild. Lunch boxes are marked in several ways.