A man on a bicycle delivering meals to office workers, Mumbai


Dabbahwalah dabbah wallah or tiffin box carriers Churchgate The packed lunch is alive and well and living in Mumbai Every day some 4 000 dabbah wallahs or packed lunch boys set off on foot bicycle train and auto rickshaw to deliver up to 160 000 home cooked meals to office workers scattered across this hot vibrant in your face city Carried in India s glorified take on the lunch box the tiffin a shiny metal cylinder of nesting containers that looks durable enough to carry ordnance the system brings entire new meaning to the term brown bag Mumbai scenes


Size: 5250px × 3493px
Location: Churchgate Mumbai
Photo credit: © nick cunard / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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