Mumbai's famed dabbawalas fed millions for over 100 years - now they are disappearing 8 hours ago Nilesh Dhotre & Shahid Sheikh BBC Marathi Bloomberg via Getty Images The number of registered dabbawalas has fallen from around 4,500 in 2018 to roughly 1,500 today Every morning, before the city has fully woken up, men in white caps and shirts arrive at Mumbai's suburban railway stations on bicycles stacked high with lunchboxes. They load these boxes onto trains, cross the city and then spread out on foot and bikes to deliver hot, home-cooked meals to office workers. After a short break, they do it all in reverse - collecting the empty boxes and returning them to the kitchens they came from by mid-afternoon. These men are called dabbawalas and for more than a century they have kept Mumbai fed through a delivery system so precise it became world famous.…