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October 04, 2008

The dabbawala system

Dabbawala A dabbawala is a person in the Indian city of Mumbai who is employed in a unique service industry whose primary business is collecting the freshly cooked food in lunch boxes from the residences of the office workers (mostly in the suburbs), delivering it to their respective workplaces and returning back the empty boxes by using various modes of transport. (From wikipedia)

Happy Birthday Mahatma Gandhi. (From Arbroath)

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