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. And business is growing at a steady rate of 5 10 a year. 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. And no better example of this.

This cbs news story says two main reasons for the success of the dabbawalas. Tiffins in the wild. Code the mostly illiterate crew of deliverymen relies on a color coding system to route lunches to the proper recipients. With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey.

Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong. د ب ه while wala is an agentive suffix denoting a doer or holder of the preceding word. A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box. 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.

The dabbawallahs even deliver in the pouring rain or during political strife. These dabbawalas move 400 000 lunch boxes every day using trains and bicycles. Lunch boxes are marked in several ways. Directed by ritesh batra.

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. Ny times the code explained.