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auto rickshaws

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...
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A nice piece on tuk tuks from a billion reasons to visit india blog: Motoring through crowded streets in auto rickshaws (aka tuk tuks), is my favorite mode of transportation in India. They are loud. They are subject to the wind and rain. They miraculously come within millimeters of pedestrians, cows, scooters, bikes, and other auto...
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Go on a ride with team Ruby Murray from the 2009 Mumbai Xpress: “Meeting at a car park near Juhu Juhu beach, we all drove the last 800 meters to the Marriot, our finishing line, together. A very sad last part of the journey as we’d had so much fun that it was a group...
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An autorickshaw driver who gives free rides to the blind, donates money to an old age home and is trying to raise funds for the treatment of a sandwich vendor. Sandeep Bachhe is an autorickshaw driver in Mumbai. More of him later, but first let me take you through his wonder autorickshaw. It has a...
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For all the auto rickshaw fanatics out there who cannot get enough of the little three wheeled devil, here u go: Desi Auto  Autos are simple, and so must their games be.  Swerve your auto through the city in a race with other autos         Hey Taxi Pick up and drop passengers. Earn points, which...
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YOKOMONO is a sound composition with 30 auto rickshaws playing horn patterns in sync with each other as they move in groups around the concentric circles of Connaught Place of New Dehli. A project by staalplaat soundsystem.     Watch: More info here
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The spirit of adventure that brought 27 people from from around the world together to drive three-wheeled auto-rickshaws across India finally culminated at Mumbai’s JW Marriott in on 13 August 2009. Divided into 13 teams, they braved the city’s infamous traffic travelling from Alibag in the final leg of the 2,000-km four-state rally, which brought...
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