Apr 9, 2011

Cycle Rickshaw in Chennai

You don't see many Cycle Rickshaws these days in Chennai.  This is the halfway point between the hand-pulled rickshaws and the autorickshaws.  A lifetime behind the wheel pulling this weight makes a Cycle Rickshaw driver's life much shorter.  Many of them die from tuberculosis at young age.  Cycle rickshaws and hand-pulled rickshaws are banned in many places in India but you still find them in certain pockets in Chennai.  

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  1. You still find them in Jaipur and Varanasi and even Vrindavan... Yes they are found in some parts of India god are detrimental to the drivers health...

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