Tag: Rickshaws
Photo We Love: Speeding Auto Rickshaw in Agra, India
by World Hum | 08.31.09 | 1:49 PM ET
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Yahoo! BuzzIn Kolkata, the ‘Last Days of the Rickshaw’?
by Michael Yessis | 04.03.08 | 4:08 PM ET
Calvin Trillin’s look at the fate of hand-pulled rickshaws in Kolkata (aka Calcutta) leads a terrific package on the subject in National Geographic. “To Westerners, the conveyance most identified with Kolkata is not its modern subway—a facility whose spacious stations have art on the walls and cricket matches on television monitors—but the hand-pulled rickshaw,” he writes. “Stories and films celebrate a primitive-looking cart with high wooden wheels, pulled by someone who looks close to needing the succor of Mother Teresa.”
‘Human Horses’ Defy Calcutta Rickshaw Ban
by Eva Holland | 09.13.07 | 12:00 PM ET
For more than a century, hand-pulled rickshaws have rolled through the busy streets and narrow alleys of Calcutta—or Kolkata (yes, we got the memo). But last month the BBC reported that the state government of West Bengal would be banning Calcutta’s famous human-powered transport. Now, the AFP has released this video report showing both rickshaw pullers and regular customers voicing their opposition to the ban. One customer noted that they were the only affordable transport for the injured or the sick, and wondered about compensation or re-training for the pullers. One rickshaw-puller said simply, “I have never done anything else.”
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