MUMBAI, India (CNN)-- Every day ... how the dabbawalas work » A typical day for a dabbawala starts at around 8 am when the cylindrical metal tiffin boxes are collected from homes and taken ...

Mumbai: Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Association General Secretary Gangaram Talekar passed away at a private hospital here on Tuesday. "Gangaram had recently undergone a bypass surgery. He got a ...

In Mumbai’s Dabbawala, Raghunath Medge, the son of Dhondiba Medge and current president of the Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers’ Association, tells Bondre that the Gandhi cap covers the ...

a 4th-generation dabbawala with an MBA degree. Mumbai’s 130-year-old dabba distribution fleet has been a legendary workforce of 5,000 tiffin carriers like Ghule — picking up food from home ...

The tiffin delivery men, most of who come from villages around Pune, are from the Maratha community. On August 9, the dabbawalas took a day off to join the Maratha reservation rally in Mumbai and ...

The chapter recounts the origins of Mumbai's dabbawala service, dating back to 1890, when the first tiffin carrier, Mahadeo Havaji Bachche, delivered a lunchbox from Dadar to Fort, Mumbai.

who have been dedicated to delivering tiffin boxes across Mumbai since 1980. Mahadeo Havaji Bachche was the first dabbawala to deliver a lunchbox from Dadar to Fort, Mumbai. "In the year 1890 ...

In a warm gesture, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar donned a 'Dabbawala Cap' and lavished praise on the globally-famed Mumbai community of tiffin-box carriers, at a function to ...

A dabbawala from Mumbai lost his life in this incident. This tragedy has caused sorrow for the Khengale family, who work as dabbawalas. Consequently, the dabbawala group has requested aid money ...

an office bearer of the Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Association, told PTI that he spoke to the Queen and had breakfast with her twice when he and Sopan Mare, another dabbawala from Mumbai ...

Samyukta Nair, who also founded Jamavar near Bond Street, which has received rave reviews from critics including Fay Maschler and Grace Dent, will open Dabbawala close by next month. The ...