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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Dabbawallas

Dabbawallas are so proud of what they do that they'll stop anywhere to have their photos taken. They transport hot lunches from housewives to office husbands. At 11am daily these men, identifiable by their white caps,  pick up the lunches from each home.

Each lunch is then transported to the train station by bikes and carts.


Here they are sorted into wooden trays that are then redistributed throughout Mumbai.  About 200,000 lunches are delivered daily with a 1/6,000,000 margin of error!

Special train compartments are set aside for luggage and these trays of tiffins (lunch boxes)

… and at 2pm the lunch boxes are returned to the housewives.  A local hindi lady explained that the men were too lazy to take them home themselves.