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The safety of children has become a priority in the town of Thiruvananthapuram; with a smart and swift decision, Rickshaw drivers and Childline will work together from now on.   Childline, India’s first foundation providing help for street children who need it, has gone above and beyond to do so since 1996. The toll-free number...
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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...
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Photo installation by Rico Rosenberger of the colorful world of Indian rickshaw drivers in Cochin, Kerala. Rickshaw Wallah
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The Rickshaw Challenge in Lonely Planet’s 10 greatest adventures. RACE A RICKSHAW To paraphrase the office sticker cliché: you don’t have to be mad to drive here, but it helps. India’s roads aren’t for the faint of heart; whether you’re on foot, pedalling a bike or jammed into a bus, the mayhem of packed city...
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Omur Black takes us to the narrow laneways of London late at night when an army of rickshaw drivers look for customers as the city’s famous theatres spill their patrons on to the rainy streets. From their base in an autopark underneath Great Portland Street and Russell Square, the rickshaw drivers converge on central London...
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Green, yellow, black. They are the blood in the veins of Bangalore: the 450.000 rickshaws and their drivers. Knocked together from bits and pieces, decorated, ready for the junk heap or carefully maintained like antique cars, the vehicles are as charismatic as their owners, who brave the monstrous traffic of this metropolis daringly, sleepy, chattering...
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SRN (Smart Rickshaw Network) targets rickshaw drivers of BOP section from developing countries as micro workers to provide real time traffic, landmark and tourist hot spot updates & act as advertisement medium; which will help in uplifting their living and at same time addressing the problem of Traffic Congestion & Mobile Recycling. India’s Aadhar Bhalinge,...
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Three Wheels United have taken on the challenge to improve the lives of the millions of rickshaw drivers that ply the roads of India and other countries. In close co-creation with the auto rickshaw driver communities, TWU developed a profitable business model that will improve the living standard of rickshaw drivers and their families. The...
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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....
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