The bustle of Old Delhi, seen from the back of a bicycle rickshaw, was the India that we had come to see. |
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Many foreigners think that the bicycle rickshaw has been consigned to the history books, but in fact they continue to be widely used in Dhaka. |
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I was about to give up after about 15 minutes when a cycle rickshaw appeared by my side from nowhere. |
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Ex-cabbie David Kennedy had hoped to start ferrying passengers on his cycle rickshaw in April. |
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He pioneered a solar-powered desalination plant and developed India's first battery-operated cycle rickshaw for transporting people or goods. |
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Tourist guidebooks are full of stories about the tricks that rickshaw drivers pull on unsuspecting tourists. |
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Now I'm washing out of a bucket of water, slurping my tea and arguing with rickshaw drivers. |
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He was very efficient and though there were 3 of us in the rickshaw instead of the usual 2, he got us to Puraniya crossing well before time. |
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Even today, a person wanting to drive a rickshaw, or to run a tea shop, suffers the same horrors of the license-permit-quota raj. |
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The first time he came was in 1945 when the main means of transport was by foot or rickshaw. |
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In rarefied locations in the city, foreigners ride the rickshaw for a lark. |
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It looked like a mixture between a small car, a motorcycle, and a rickshaw. |
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The youths, who had followed them for some distance, got on to the rickshaw and beat the rickshaw-puller and Ms Prem Lata. |
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The cab is descended from the rickshaw and the carriage, whereas the rig is descended from the locomotive, the wagon, and the steamship. |
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Pramoto, a man with a soft face and a limp cigarette, lay sprawled on a rickshaw seat. |
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When she misses her train, Isa's day sightseeing turns into a road trip through Rajasthan by rickshaw. |
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Few things make you look so silly as luxuriating in a cart pulled by an elderly rickshaw in torn, worn-down slippers. |
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And it was true that the exhausting task we had set ourselves was in some ways far beyond what ordinary rickshaw drivers ever attempted. |
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He also introduced a rickshaw service, which takes unclaimed bodies from the government mortuary for a proper burial. |
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Outside the temple you may find some locals who will offer their rickshaw hutongs tours. |
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First is an improved pedal cycle that is so efficient that a rickshaw driver can carry two passengers on a six to ten percent slope quite easily. |
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Children played soccer on the cobblestones and roaming dogs barked at our rickshaw and ran after it. |
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Nothing ever halted his rickshaw, he declared with pride, whether colonialism, occupation, dictatorship or democracy. |
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The lightweight cycle rickshaw, which can easily be used on unpaved roads, is the most popular vehicle in towns and villages. |
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A middle-aged Sikh offered to take me into town on a cycle rickshaw. |
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Town and city dwellers both rely largely on the cycle rickshaw and on two types of three-wheeled vehicles, known locally as auto and tempo. |
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A virtual conspiracy of one-way narrow streets makes a horse-drawn carriage or hired bicycle rickshaw an easier and more novel way to experience the city than a car. |
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Belly dancers, rickshaw races, rides, Mr. and Miss Camel Cup challenges, food stalls and bars add to the carnival atmosphere. |
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They will be coming to the big cities, looking for jobs that won't be created if India expands at a rickshaw rate of growth. |
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The most committed Chhau performer can be forgiven if he would rather watch his son pedal a cycle rickshaw on the streets of Ranchi than starve as an unemployed dancer. |
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Salzburg has arranged interactive demonstrations of electric vehicles and rickshaw rides through the Austrian city. |
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At the tram depot, Gauri and her mother-in-law hired a cycle rickshaw to take them home. |
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Among them was Rowena Estoya's husband Bernado, a bicycle rickshaw driver with curly hair and a patient manner. |
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Whenever you go out, ask the travel desk officer in the hotel to write the destination in Gujarati language since it is easier for you to communicate with rickshaw drivers. |
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As the next monument is some hundreds metres from the entrance, you've the possibility to rent a bike or a rickshaw. |
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It overtakes a cycle rickshaw carrying seven schoolchildren, two of them standing. |
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The site thus provides livelihoods for a large number of guides and rickshaw pullers, hoteliers and tour operators. |
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The people are poor, and work in the city of Mymensingh as coolies, rickshaw pullers and day labourers. |
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The group is made up of Maung and three other college graduate rickshaw drivers and myself. |
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India has sent a rocket to Mars that cost less per kilometre than a rickshaw ride. |
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Loud cheers were directed at an elderly gay couple, sitting in a rickshaw, celebrating 54 years together. |
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Many of the rickshaw pullers and coolies are proud that their children are going to school, in spite of being so poor. |
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A short rickshaw ride away from the town of Ponda, this spice farm is a great place to relax and spend the day. |
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She was the first rickshaw conductress in Maduraï, to the pride and joy of all, throughout India, informed by the media of this great first. |
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She has one child and has been married for three days to a rickshaw driver. |
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Hundreds of thousands of rickshaw drivers in Bangladesh survive on just a few dollars a day. |
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In between the heats you can take part in rickshaw races or compete to be the most fashionable on the field in the Mr. and Miss Camel Cup. |
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This road is covered with rocks and dirt Buses with pilgrims hurtle past You squint at a boy pedalling his cycle rickshaw Close, far too close, drops of mud splatter us both. |
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Word also spread in old-fashioned ways: every motorised rickshaw in the city seemed to carry a poster of a broom. For now Delhi, a city of 16m and India's wealthiest, lacks a government. |
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This is not easy to attract the tourists as there is an Indian habit of hostels giving commissions to the rickshaw drivers if they bring the tourists to their place. |
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Or, in late spring, summer, or early fall, discover the city riding in a rickshaw from Ottawa Rickshaws, with a Historical Tour of the downtown and ByWard Market areas. |
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From time to time, the protected area management gives training in bird identification and KNP values to guides and rickshaw pullers, enabling them to earn more money. |
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This means that we presently finance more than 600,000 small farmers, market vendors, rickshaw drivers and other small businesses directly with the investments of our members. |
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So as the rickshaw with the actors are being pulled along the street, four other crew members have to run along with the rickshaw holding up this big frame above the actors. |
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For example, rickshaw art in Chittagong and Comilla are dominated by floral scenery and Arabic texts. |
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They include the bicycle, wheelchair, walking, skateboard, wheelbarrow, rowing, skis, and rickshaw. |
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The trishaw, a hybrid of the tricycle and the rickshaw, is also available, though it is mainly for sightseeing purposes. |
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The two-wheelers, pedestrians and rickshaw pullers got stuck in knee-deep waters at Goshala underpass of the area. |
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Nearly one lakh auto rickshaw drivers have resorted to arm twisting to get the Delhi government's new City Taxi scheme revoked. |
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The rickshaw men living near our house remained without a roof and are having difficulty earning the dollar and a half a day that pays for the rickshaw rental and another dollar for their family needs. |
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The cycle rickshaw loaded with the temple pillars started on its way, and a group of several dozen people almost instantly grew into the hundreds. |
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When taking a rickshaw, taxi or a train from the airport to the city centre, you begin to get an idea of the amount of informal housing there is in the city. |
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Was this a bicycle, a motorcycle, a cycle rickshaw maybe? |
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When motorists see a bicycle or rickshaw, they recognize that it accords the occupants little structural protection and, therefore, they are most likely to give the bike or rickshaw a wide berth. |
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Giggling breaks out among thirty teenage boys attending the night school, most of whom spend their days working as waiters, rickshaw wallahs and porters. |
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The Delhi High Court had directed the state government to stop e-rickshaws from plying on city roads which had been met with resistance and protests from E rickshaw owners. |
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These pedicabs which are similar to a rickshaw or riksha,but totally modern however, are not only excellent means of transport for urban areas but also excel at events. |
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In the lead-up to next week's telly extravaganza, The One Show host will cycle a rickshaw 484 miles from Edinburgh to arrive saddlesore at BBC TV Centre in London next Friday. |
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The driver was some distance away, leaning on his rickshaw and smoking a cigarette that looked like a dried tobacco leaf that had been rolled up to allow for easy smokability. |
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Each region of Bangladesh has a distinct style of rickshaw art. |
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