Scorching sun or floods, nothing stopped Mumbai’s dabbawalas. And then came Covid-19.

Jaysing Pingle has been in his village in Pune since the last one month, taking to farm life as an alternate mode of survival. As a Mumbai Dabbawala for the last 22 years, Pingle has been at sea on how to navigate this new path that the deadly virus has led him on. Pingle’s daily schedule for the last many years used to start at 8 am, when he would head to the Dadar station to begin the day’s work. Heading a group of 60 people, everyone was