A tiffin box, first time in my adult life

For the 1st time in my life, I carried packed lunch to work on Friday.  During the seven years of my sailing life, there was no question of packing anything lunch or otherwise.

Over the next 7 years as shore manager there was always the company canteen and the restaurants of Mumbai.  And the last 7 years on my own, lunch was mostly at home.

In fact, the last time I carried packed lunch was to my 10th class room.  After that, schooling was on shift pattern and I never had to carry lunch.  Thus after almost 2 score and half decade later – packed lunch.

And in case you wonder what the lunch was – here is the snapshot.  A typical madrasi lunch – a good serving of ‘curd rice’, a serving of mashed spinach and 2 vadu mangai (tender small mango) pickles – carried in a typical madrasi stainless steel ‘dabba’ or tiffin carrier.

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