Mumbai Dabbawallas

The company, DabbaDrop, is inspired by Mumbai's successful and zero-waste approach and avoids the use of single-use plastic containers for food packaging.

Neena Guptas latest film promotion came with a foodie twist. She served food to Mumbai dabbawallas with co-actors Anupam Kher and Nargis Fakhri.

The dabbawalas in Mumbai who send out tiffin to homes and offices have stopped delivery till March 31 to mitigate the risk of contracting the highly contagious Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 as positive cases continue to rise in India.

The famous Dabbawalas or tiffin carriers of Mumbai will be celebrating the wedding of Prince Harry of the British royal family and Hollywood actor Meghan Markle in a special way.

It's been perhaps a decade, or two, since Mumbai has woken up to the brilliance of the dabbawalas, but they've been around from 1890. Here's their fascinating story.

Dabbawallas have been struggling to keep up with the plethora of food-delivery apps and changing tastes in India's most cosmopolitan city.

For more than 100 years, Mumbai's famous lunchbox delivery men have brought thousands of home-cooked meals each day from residences on the outskirts of the city to workers in the center.

Joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Clean India campaign, the famous dabbawallas (tiffin suppliers) of Mumbai wielded the broom and cleaned the area around the Lower Parel station in south Mumbai.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today nominated more people to the Clean India Mission, including former police official Kiran Bedi, former cricketer Sourav Ganguly, and the famous 'dabbawalas' of Mumbai.

Back in 2007 Indian-American filmmaker Ritesh Batra had interacted with Mumbai's dabbawallas for a couple of weeks while trying to make a documentary about them, but instead ended up making The Lunchbox.

Shobha Bondre's translated title, Mumbai's Dabbawallas, gives an honest insight into the pulse of this ever-expanding city and its indigenous food line the Dabbawalla.After the downpour of information regarding Mumbai's Dabbawallas, in the last few years,...

Mumbai's famous dabbawalas now want to drive cabs to supplement their meagre monthly income, earned by ferrying thousands of lunch-boxes daily, an office-bearer said in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Actors, businessmen, doctors and dabbawallahs, environmentalists, sportspersons including many foreigners and others joined over 40,000 enthusiasistic citizens at the 10th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon here, braving the Sunday morning chills.

Like almost all other sections of the city's population, the politics and paucity of space has also started afflicting the functioning of the unfailing army of city dabbawalas, who satisfy the hunger pangs of lakhs every day. Members of the over 5,000-strong community have written to the authorities at Western Railway (WR) asking them to specially ...

They are unmatched in terms of punctuality, efficiency and managerial skills. But the city's dabbawalas, who are all set to give the city's corporators a run for their money when they contest the upcoming civic elections, have already met their fair share of hurdles, the first hiccup being a grinding financial crunch. Monetary constraints have forc...

The company, DabbaDrop, is inspired by Mumbai's successful and zero-waste approach and avoids the use of single-use plastic containers for food packaging.

Neena Guptas latest film promotion came with a foodie twist. She served food to Mumbai dabbawallas with co-actors Anupam Kher and Nargis Fakhri.

The dabbawalas in Mumbai who send out tiffin to homes and offices have stopped delivery till March 31 to mitigate the risk of contracting the highly contagious Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 as positive cases continue to rise in India.

The famous Dabbawalas or tiffin carriers of Mumbai will be celebrating the wedding of Prince Harry of the British royal family and Hollywood actor Meghan Markle in a special way.

It's been perhaps a decade, or two, since Mumbai has woken up to the brilliance of the dabbawalas, but they've been around from 1890. Here's their fascinating story.

Dabbawallas have been struggling to keep up with the plethora of food-delivery apps and changing tastes in India's most cosmopolitan city.

For more than 100 years, Mumbai's famous lunchbox delivery men have brought thousands of home-cooked meals each day from residences on the outskirts of the city to workers in the center.

Joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Clean India campaign, the famous dabbawallas (tiffin suppliers) of Mumbai wielded the broom and cleaned the area around the Lower Parel station in south Mumbai.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today nominated more people to the Clean India Mission, including former police official Kiran Bedi, former cricketer Sourav Ganguly, and the famous 'dabbawalas' of Mumbai.

Back in 2007 Indian-American filmmaker Ritesh Batra had interacted with Mumbai's dabbawallas for a couple of weeks while trying to make a documentary about them, but instead ended up making The Lunchbox.

Shobha Bondre's translated title, Mumbai's Dabbawallas, gives an honest insight into the pulse of this ever-expanding city and its indigenous food line the Dabbawalla.After the downpour of information regarding Mumbai's Dabbawallas, in the last few years,...

Mumbai's famous dabbawalas now want to drive cabs to supplement their meagre monthly income, earned by ferrying thousands of lunch-boxes daily, an office-bearer said in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Actors, businessmen, doctors and dabbawallahs, environmentalists, sportspersons including many foreigners and others joined over 40,000 enthusiasistic citizens at the 10th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon here, braving the Sunday morning chills.

Like almost all other sections of the city's population, the politics and paucity of space has also started afflicting the functioning of the unfailing army of city dabbawalas, who satisfy the hunger pangs of lakhs every day. Members of the over 5,000-strong community have written to the authorities at Western Railway (WR) asking them to specially ...

They are unmatched in terms of punctuality, efficiency and managerial skills. But the city's dabbawalas, who are all set to give the city's corporators a run for their money when they contest the upcoming civic elections, have already met their fair share of hurdles, the first hiccup being a grinding financial crunch. Monetary constraints have forc...