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Third part of the series. These photographs were shot at Kumartuli. The beauty of these Rickshaws is that they enter any nook and corner of the city, without being hushed now. Once a prime mode of transport across gullis’ of North Kolkata, this now forms heritage of the city, criticised by the activists on humanitarian grounds, the bengali moms love leaving their children to the nearest trustworthy rickshaw wala, to make them reach school in time.

Photograph [ 007 ] :

Photograph [ 008 ] : Transporting material to the other by lane.

Photograph [ 009 ] : Some time to rest.

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Sharing three more photographs of the hand pulled rickshaws of Kolkata. Do comment your honest reviews. Share ideas as well.

Photograph [ 004 ] : Another busy street, another attempt of using slow shutter while photographying Rickshaw pullers. (2012)

Photograph [ 005 ] : Shot in the rains, no clue about captions. Do suggest one. (2012)

Photograph [ 006 ] : Another busy street, another attempt of depicting the Rickshaw amidst the rush of the city. (2012)

Link to the previous post : Kolkata and Rickshaws (1).
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Kolkata’s street photography is incomplete without photographs of the hand pulled Rickshaw. I present three shots of Rickshaws, different from what I had seen my contemporaries do, or perhaps different from what the few of the renowned photographers did.

Photographs [ 001 ] : I tried to keep it minimal, my feet over and near the head of a very elderly person who pulled the rickshaw in exchange of as less as ten rupees. (2010) [post]

Photograph [ 002 ] was very elegant of the rickshaw pullers and it appealed to me. (2010)

Photograph [ 003 ] : I wanted to show a big crossing, busy street with heavy traffic and how instead of the slow pace, the hand pulled rickshaw coped with, forming a part of the city flowing and surviving with it. (2012)

I have no specific reasons why I transformed them and presented them in monotone Black and White. May be that appealed to me, and I wanted the viewer to notice the subject and get with the feeling straight away , I am not sure.

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Call it elitist, call it against humanism.. shunned by most part of the world, Hand pulled Richshaws are a vibrant reality on the street of Kolkata. The last government wished to rehabilitate the rickshaw pullers, not mentioning exactly how they would proceed with the idea. The Rickshaw pullers have now become a part of the heritage of Calcutta, of which we can insanely boast of. It has attracted lovers, poets, writers and have become an inspirational storyline to Rudyard Kipling, Dominique Lapierre… while films like “Do beegha zameen”, and the “city of Joy” had a prominent character of the rickshaw in their story.

The government has no proper plans to rehabilitate, parents find their kids easily transported to their schools, Calcutta is able to keep on to the inhuman custom.. while the vast majority of rickshaw pullers from the state of Bihar find some occupation.. Where are we actually standing?

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