Article 1KPPN Tiffin: a boardgame based on Mumbai's miraculous lunch-delivery network

Tiffin: a boardgame based on Mumbai's miraculous lunch-delivery network

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tiffinbox.jpgMore than 250,000 of Mumbai's workers enjoy a home-cooked lunch every day thanks to the dabbawallas, who bring tiffins -- stacking lunchpails -- filled at each worker's family kitchen directly to their workplace, in a miracle of coordinated logistics that consistently beats Mumbai's legendary traffic jams and attains unheard-of accuracy despite the low levels of literacy among dabbawallas. (more")

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