dabbawallas

Each day in Mumbai 4000 men in white outfits and matching hats transport 175,000 lunches across the big city. They retrieve the tiffens (lunch containers) of food from mothers and wives, and bring them (by foot, train, bicycle and even carried on top of their heads) to the office buildings of waiting husbands and sons....Read More

Indian food expert Vandana Verma hunts down Mumbai’s food staples, from family-owned Gujurati canteens to street stalls hawking ‘Bombay Sandwiches’, via the best ‘vada pav’ in the city – spiced potato balls mixed with coriander, garlic and chilli deep-fried in chickpea batter. Vandana also tracks Mumbai’s dabbawallas, the army of couriers who ferry tiffin lunch...Read More