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Men in Mumbai, India, eat lunch from ‘tiffin boxes,’ sectioned lunch boxes.

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Dabbawalas push a cart of lunch boxes to deliver to office workers. Dabbawalas are unique to Mumbai are are tasked with delivering lunch boxes from office worker’s homes to businesses and then back to the owner’s home.

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A man in Mumbai, India, carries luggage and lunch boxes through the streets.

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Dabbawalas, meaning ‘one who carries a box,’ take a break from delivering lunch boxes to office workers. Roughly 4,500 dabbawalas collect and deliver close to 200,000 packages of food within hours in Mumbai with such accuracy, package delivery companies are coming to study their ways of working.

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Dabbawalas sort and prepare to deliver lunch boxes to office workers. Dabbawalas are unique to Mumbai are are tasked with delivering lunch boxes from office worker’s homes to businesses and then back to the owner’s home.

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A dabbawala rides on a train with his cargo of lunch boxes, known as tiffins. Unique to Mumbai, India, the ‘dabbawala’ is a person who collects freshly-cooked food from the residences of office workers and delivers it to their workplaces and later returns the empty boxes using various modes of transport.

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Portrait of a dabbawala. Unique to Mumbai, India, the ‘dabbawala’ is a person who collects freshly-cooked food in lunch boxes called ‘tiffins’ from the residences of office workers and delivers it to their workplaces and later returns the empty boxes using various modes of transport.

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Men in Mumbai, India, load luggage and packages into a train. The men are dabbawalas, meaning ‘one who carries a box.’ Dabbawllas deliver and collect lunch boxes, called tiffins.

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