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Forget Uber Eats: Mumbai’s 125-year-old food delivery system wins the day

Modern technology is no match for Mumbai’s 125-year-old lunchtime delivery service. Lottie Gross meets the city’s much-lauded dabbawalas. Indian road traffic … More

Dabbawalas, Delivery, Heritage, Mumbai

Mumbai’s dabbawalas fear they have made their last delivery

Mumbai’s quintessential ‘dabbawalas’, who fed lakhs daily, are seeking help to feed their own For 22 years, Kailash Mahadev Shinde … More

Covid19, Dabbawalas, Delivery, Economy, Mumbai

Hard times for Mumbai’s ‘dabbawalas’: One of the world’s best lunch delivery systems now lacks customers

Pandemic that has battered Indian city threatens livelihood of iconic white-capped workers KOLKATA : Many of Mumbai’s office workers and … More

Dabbawalas, Delivery, India, White-capped

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