Malishka talks to Subhash Talekar, President of Dabbawala Association about how Mumbai has changed over last 120 years

An increasing number of migrants were moving to Bombay from
different parts of the country, and fast food and canteens were
not prevalent. All these people left early in the morning for
offices, and often had to go hungry for lunch. They belonged to
different communities, and therefore had different types of
tastes, which could only be satisfied by their own home-cooked
meals. So, in 1890, Mahadeo Havaji Bachche started a lunch
delivery service in Bombay with about a hundred
men. This proved to be successful, and the service grew from
there. In 1930, he informally attempted to unionize the
dabbawalas. Later, a charitable trust was registered in
1956 under the name of Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers
Trust.The commercial arm of this trust was registered in 1968 as
Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Association.


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