The famous "dabbawallas" who pick up and deliver home-cooked lunch to hundreds of thousands of office workers in India's commercial capital Mumbai announced the first strike in their long history on Thursday, in solidarity with the high-profile anti-corruption campaigner arrested earlier this week.
The couriers are the latest to join protests across India that have seen tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to support Anna Hazare.
The 74-year-old social activist leading the effort to force the government to set up a powerful new anti-corruption agency is maintaining his hunger strike in a high-security prison, even though he is now free to leave.
The Mumbai dabbawallas – "dabba" refers to the tin box in which the lunch is held, "walla" means man – say they have been inspired by Hazare's refusal to eat solid food. "We are breaking our 120-year tradition by not providing tiffins. This is the least we can do to support Annaji, who has been fasting for over 50 hours in inhuman conditions," Kiran Gavande, the secretary of the Nutan Dabbalwala Trust told a local television station. More...
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The couriers are the latest to join protests across India that have seen tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to support Anna Hazare.
The 74-year-old social activist leading the effort to force the government to set up a powerful new anti-corruption agency is maintaining his hunger strike in a high-security prison, even though he is now free to leave.
The Mumbai dabbawallas – "dabba" refers to the tin box in which the lunch is held, "walla" means man – say they have been inspired by Hazare's refusal to eat solid food. "We are breaking our 120-year tradition by not providing tiffins. This is the least we can do to support Annaji, who has been fasting for over 50 hours in inhuman conditions," Kiran Gavande, the secretary of the Nutan Dabbalwala Trust told a local television station. More...
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