Tag: Rickshaw

By Aazeen Ghaus The rickshaw pullers of Jamia Nagar might be among the last in Delhi. Their numbers are dwindling day by day. They are living on the edge. Paddle rickshaws, once the only mode of local transportation, are no longer a feasible alternative for people, nor are they able to properly feed their pullers. Rickshaw is one of the inventions widely assumed to have been invented in Japan in the 1860s, at the start of an era of tremendous technological growth. Rickshaw pulling became a cheap and popular mean of...