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Showing posts with label People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label People. Show all posts
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Mumbai Dabbawala or Tiffin Wallahs
Mumbai Dabbawala or Tiffin Wallahs: 200,000 Tiffin Boxes Delivered Per Day, originally uploaded by babasteve.
Tiffin Wallah translates as one who carries the box. Tiffin is an old English word for a light lunch, and also the name of the multi-compartment metal lunch box that carries it. The Tiffin Wallah originated over a century ago when the many Indians working for British companies disliked the food served at work. Tiffin service was created to bring home cooking to the workplace. Today the city's 5,000 tiffin-wallahs deliver 200,000 tiffin-boxes filled with home-cooked food each day. According to a recent survey, there is only one mistake in every 16,000,000 deliveries and the system has registered a performance rating of 99.999999. Prince Charles is a fan and patron of the Tiffin Wallahs and countless businesses and corporations study the system to learn of its success and efficiency.
Jaipur foot - A grassroot innovation
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-Jaipur is the famous city of Rajasthan, INDIA.
Apart from tourism, this city is also famous for its grassroot innovation called JAIPUR FOOT. This is an example of the innovation required to help the poor people not only in INDIA but all over the world. Particularly in war torn countries, where legs are most often causality . This is not only efficient and robust, but also very cheap. With philanthropic efforts it's cost has been reduced further.
The cost is only 28$ and till now more than 960,000 people got the life of dignity utilising fruit of this innovation.
link to organisation website-
www.jaipurfoot.org/07_donations_help.asp
Tool Trader
Taken from Ellis Bridge looking over a tool trader's spot at the Ravivar Bazaar (Sunday Market) in Ahmedabad. The display of tools at this particular stall is about 4 times that which you can see here and is all set up for only one day a week. The market location is alongside the slum at the edge of the Sabramati River.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Dude!!! I'm already late...Lama is gonna kill me :(
Met this Tibetan kids @ golden temple, Namdroling, Karnataka, India.
They were rushing to the classes...
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