The hotel was in the airport complex and from the rooftop bar the tower is very clear.
Rose petals - a lot of rose petals.
In 1890 Bombay, Mahadeo Havaji Bachche started a lunch delivery service with about a hundred men. Lunch comes in from the suburbs to the city by train, then picked up at the train station and delivered to the office.
Color coding system identifies the destination and recipient.
Each dabbawala is required to contribute a minimum capital in kind, in the form of two bicycles, a wooden crate for the tiffins, white cotton pajamas, and the white Gandhi cap (topi). Each month there is a division of the earnings of each unit. Fines are imposed for alcohol, tobacco, out-of-uniform, and absenteeism.
Between 175,000 and 200,000 lunch boxes are moved each day by 4,500 to 5,000 dabbawalas.
Most dabbawala are related to each other, belong to the Varkari sect of Maharashtra, and come from the same small village near Pune. Tiffin distribution is suspended for five days each March as the dabbawala go home for the annual village festival.
Many of the Mumbai hotels and hospitals send their laundry to the Dhobi Ghat.
There are over 7,000 people washing each day
