Auto-Rickshaws are INSANE.
If you are not about to be creamed on the interstate by a bus or a zooming beemer, than you are drowning in truck exhaust behind some mammoth excuse of an automobile. And they don't stop for ambulances! Or move over, half the time.
There is something quite...exciting about it though. Like, my friend Shradha said, a roller coaster. It goes up and down and all around, you have nothing to grab a hold of but a metal bar in front of you and there is the slight possibility you may die. Or fall out (did I mention there are NO DOORS?). The streets fly past you, glimpses of color and people and shops and dogs - women bucket washing their children in the dirt, a legless child flying a kite and beautifully dressed women on motorbikes. We pass by the slums the rickshaw wallahs likely live in, depicting scenes of children playing with kites and tires, women carrying bags of plastic to sell and clothes hanging from everywhere. Adjacent to gleaming malls and billboards advertising infinity pools. So much contrast, it is difficult to take it all in.
Beauty wears a different color here.
If you are not about to be creamed on the interstate by a bus or a zooming beemer, than you are drowning in truck exhaust behind some mammoth excuse of an automobile. And they don't stop for ambulances! Or move over, half the time.
There is something quite...exciting about it though. Like, my friend Shradha said, a roller coaster. It goes up and down and all around, you have nothing to grab a hold of but a metal bar in front of you and there is the slight possibility you may die. Or fall out (did I mention there are NO DOORS?). The streets fly past you, glimpses of color and people and shops and dogs - women bucket washing their children in the dirt, a legless child flying a kite and beautifully dressed women on motorbikes. We pass by the slums the rickshaw wallahs likely live in, depicting scenes of children playing with kites and tires, women carrying bags of plastic to sell and clothes hanging from everywhere. Adjacent to gleaming malls and billboards advertising infinity pools. So much contrast, it is difficult to take it all in.
Beauty wears a different color here.
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