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Mumbai’s dabbawalas, lunchbox delivery workers, fear they have made their last delivery Dabbawalas, or lunchbox delivery men, walk across railway tracks to board a local train on their way to deliver lunch to office staff in Mumbai, India, in 2012. Dabbawalas deliver home-cooked food to customers across the city. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press) By Benjamin Parkin and Andrea Rodrigues Financial Times For 22 years, Kailash Mahadev Shinde lived his life to the rhythm of the dilapidated trains that pounded through the Indian megacity of Mumbai. In the morning, he would cycle through the sprawling suburbs, scooping up stacked metal tins of piping hot curries and roti from front doors with industrial precision, before clambering aboard a train clattering toward Mumbai’s southern business districts. ....