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Early dabbawalas transported lunchboxes on bicycles and marked them with coloured threads so they could be sorted and returned accurately. Over time, those markings were replaced with a unique alphanumeric code system, while deliveries came to rely on bicycles, motorbikes and Mumbai’s suburban train network. Source link

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Mauli Bachche, 40, has been a dabbawala for two decades. His day starts at 07:00 from his home in a Mumbai suburb. By 10:30, he has collected lunchboxes from homes and small kitchens across his neighbourhood and loaded them onto trains bound for offices across the city. By early afternoon, the deliveries are complete. At…

After the payment of Rs 34-crore blood money, Abdul Rahim, a native of Kodampuzha in Ramanattukara near Kozhikode, Kerala, returned home on Eid after spending nearly 20 years on death row in a Saudi Arabian prison. A driver by profession, Rahim had unintentionally touched a life-support system that resulted in the death of the son…