Indian Lunch Box Delivery System

Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong.

Indian lunch box delivery system.

With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey. A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box. The closest meaning of the dabbawala in english would be the tiffin box delivery man. And no better example of this.

Gautam singh ap. Tiffins in the wild. Lunch boxes are marked in several ways. Directed by ritesh batra.

Dabba means a box usually a cylindrical tin or aluminium container from persian. The dabbawallahs even deliver in the pouring rain or during political strife. 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.

The 5 000 strong force of dabbawalas deliver home cooked food to about 200 000 customers throughout mumbai. Ny times the code explained. 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. د ب ه while wala is an agentive suffix denoting a doer or holder of the preceding word.

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. 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.