Mumbai’s Dabbawalla: The Uncommon Story Of The Common Man

Mumbai’s Dabbawalla: The Uncommon Story Of The Common Man

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAE276
Author: Shobha Bondre
Publisher: Westland Ltd.
Edition: 2013
ISBN: 9789382618232
Pages: 194
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.0 inch x 5.0 inch
Weight 150 gm

Book Description

About the Book

Mumlais Dobbawala is the uncommon story of a common man whose existence plays a crucial rote in making the wheels of India’s financial capital turn smoothly. They may be a tiny cog in the machine but the intrepid dabbawalas of Mumbai deliver 200,000 meals every day from homes to offices within three hours. Their clockwork precision and incredibly low error rate has got the world to sit up and take note of this awesome army of 5000 men, who make sure office-goers get a hot, home-cooked meal every day, come rain or shine. It is a stupendous feat of coordination, efficiency, honesty and sheer hard work that could teach many a corporate honcho a lesson or two in running a business successfully.

The story is narrated alternately by the man who has made it happen — Raghunath Medge, president of the Dabbawalas Association, and the author Shobha Bondre

About the Author

Shobha Bondre is a celebrated and much-published Mararhi writer. She has been writing for the last 25 years and has published 15 books, many of them bestsellers that have gone into over 75 editions.

The non-Marathi reading world is now keen to read her works and her books are being translated into English, Hindi and Gujarati. She has written articles, short stories and columns for prestigious publications like Maharashtra Times, Loksana, Lokprabha, Maher and Kirloskar. She has also written dialogues for many popular Marathi TV serials like Abhalmaya, Manasi, Oon Paaus and 14rclhangini.

In the last few years, profiling people from various walks of life has become Shobha’s forte. For this, she interacts closely with her subjects, understanding them in their social, familial, emotional and economic settings.

She has won many literary awards for her work, including the Maharashtra State Award for Best Novel in 1997, for Saata Samudrapar.

Contents

1 London Beckons 1
2 Champagne and Peanut Chutney 7
3 NMTBSA an Impressive Organisation 19
4 From Bhonawala to Dabbawal 24
5 Learning the ABCD of English and of Business 31
6 To Deal or not to deal with Haji mastan That was the Question 39
7 My college days 43
8 A new beginning 47
9 The first step towards modernisation 51
10 My childhood days 59
11 My father's wedding 66
12 The dream that never came true 72
13 An itteparable loss 79
14 Head of the family -A difficult role 85
15 From the courtroom to the fields 90
16 Back to my roots 96
17 A new campaign for survival 102
18 Reorienting ourselves 108
19 Now everyone is an owner 117
20 The mystery of the six sigma 124
21 What is the six sigma 132
22 Prince charles meets the dabbawalas 137
23 Management guru number 1 146
24 Disputes, fights, and other problems 160
25 And the credit for the success goes to 169
26 The uncommon saga of the common man 179

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