Auto-rickshaw drivers

Nothing lasts forever and neither does the Rickshaw Challenge Tamil Nadu Run 2016. After a week full of crazy and wild adventures, our eleven teams from all over the world have returned to the starting point in Chennai for – all safe and sound, with an abundance of stories to tell about their rickshaw adventure....Read More

Two weeks of crazy adventures lie behind our 17 brave teams participating in this year’s Mumbai Xpress, a rickshaw adventure across India for the daring ones. We’ve already reported from the first days of the challenge, now you can find our teams made it till the finish line and what adventures they met on their way!...Read More

Leaving the cyclone behind, day 2 on the Rickshaw Challenge took us away from the coast into deep Tamil Nadu, into the mysical world of ancient temples, goats that eat everything, friendly locals, terrible roads and of course, more breakdowns.  Day 2, Pondicherry to Thanjavur  After a night of partying, most of our teams slumped...Read More

mGaadi is a commuting service from India Drivers Network, a Bangalore-based social enterprise with an initial focus on auto rickshaw drivers and commuters. We are building a location-based network of commercial drivers (starting with auto rickshaw drivers) and powered by customer ratings. Our mission is to dramatically improve the quality of commuting in Indian cities...Read More

Rickshaw drivers Mumbai prank by Funk You ‘This prank was played in Mumbai with Rickshaw drivers who always have a tendency to travel as per their will, and not as per the customer’s desire to go to a location. Hence, customers have to wait till a rickshaw agrees to go to the desired location.’ Prank...Read More

IndiaCommutes – a communication channel connecting commuters and auto-rickshaw drivers. ‘IndiaCommutes (InCom) is focussed on solving commute related issues in urban India by using community & location intelligence. Currently doing a pilot in Pune, InCom is offerering Dial-a-Rickshaw service over the phone. In the future same service will be extended over Web and SMS.’ The...Read More

Ramu and Goldy are two babies separated at a tattoo parlor in India under tragic circumstances. 30 years later, Ramu, now an auto rickshaw driver and Goldy, an ambulance driver meet at a traffic light. The idea for this film by Arjun Gupte came form his encounters with auto rickshaw drivers in Bangalore and Chennai....Read More

They have a reputation of being rude and overcharging passengers but many auto-rickshaw drivers in the capital believe this image will soon fade away as now they have reasons to do away with this habit. The auto drivers, who generally give a host of excuses for demanding exorbitant fares, now have a sort of financial...Read More

Now, the auto rickshaw drivers in the city will wear badges starting December 1 and uniform from January. The decision came after a meeting held between the traffic police department, rickshaw unions and regional transport authority (RTA). However, nothing has been decided on making uniform and badges mandatory for cab drivers in the city. After...Read More

US tourist hitches rickshaw, weds driver in a week: A 26-year-old American tourist travelling in India hitched a ride in a rickshaw last week and married the driver a few days later. Whitney from Chicago met her prince charming in Jaipur in Rajasthan, a state west of the capital famous for its stately palaces, after...Read More