{"id":89976,"date":"2026-05-30T19:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89976"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:14:16","slug":"mumbais-famed-dabbawalas-fed-millions-for-over-100-years-now-they-are-disappearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/30\/mumbais-famed-dabbawalas-fed-millions-for-over-100-years-now-they-are-disappearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai&#8217;s famed dabbawalas fed millions for over 100 years &#8211; now they are disappearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/801\/cpsprodpb\/5617\/live\/12064e80-5a76-11f1-8954-638c887fc9b3.jpg\" alt=\"Dabbawala Dasharath Kedari carries a crate of tiffin boxes while walking past a train at the Santacruz railway station in Mumbai, India\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dabbawala system is believed to have begun in the late 19th Century, when Bombay (now Mumbai) \u2013 then under British colonial rule \u2013 was rapidly expanding and office workers needed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c202d0l92weo\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The dabbawala system is believed to have begun in the late 19th Century, when Bombay (now Mumbai) \u2013 then under British colonial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dabbawalas.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89978,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89976\/revisions\/89978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}