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t Calcutta stands for,” the chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, said in a press conference in 2006.“Our city stands for prosperity and development.” The chief minister—the equivalent of a state governor—went on to announce that handpulled rickshaws soon would be banned from the streets of are not there to haul around tourists.(Actually, I saw almost no tourists in Kolkata, apart from the young backpackers on Sudder Street, in what used to be a redlight district and is now said to be the single place in the city where the services a rickshaw puller offers may include providing female pany to a gentleman for the evening.)It’s the people in the lanes who most regularly use rickshaws—not the poor but people who are just a notch above the are people who tend to travel short distances, through lanes that are sometimes inaccessible to even the most daring taxi older woman with marketing to do, for instance, can arrive in a rickshaw, have the rickshaw puller wait until she es back from various stalls to load her purchases, and then be taken in the lanes use rickshaws as a 24hour ambulance of caf233。T store from 3:30 11:30 a standin from his office literally stood in for the mayor while he conducted official billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg often waits for the subway with his fellow citizens, though he39。s Ark, two by two, that seemed to restore not just civilization but civility during the Great civil was your last flight? 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