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This way, please,” Shyly, yet proudly, Turgis followed “behind the thin marble front were concrete and steel” suggests that realistic mercialism existed behind the luxurious was a fundamental falseness in the style and the appeal of the caf233。the puller essentially bees a family June to September Kolkata can get torrential rains, and its drainage system doesn’t need torrential rain to begin backing who favor a touch of hyperbole say that in Kolkata “if a stray cat pees, there’s a flood.” During my stay it once rained for about 48 neighborhoods couldn’t be reached by motorized vehicles, and the newspapers showed pictures of rickshaws being pulled through water that was up to the pullers’ it’s raining, the normal customer base for rickshaw pullers expands greatly, as does the price of a writer in Kolkata told me, “When it rains, even the governor takes rickshaws.”While I was in Kolkata, a magazine called India Today published its annual ranking of Indian states, according to such measurements as prosperity and India’s 20 largest states, Bihar finished dead last, as it has for four of the past five , a couple hundred miles north of Kolkata, is where the vast majority of rickshaw pullers e in Kolkata, they sleep on the street or in their rickshaws or in a dera—a bination garage and repair shop and dormitory managed by someone called a sleeping privileges in a dera, pullers pay 100 rupees(about $)a month, which sounds like a pretty good deal until you’ve visited a gross between 100 and 150 rupees a day, out of which they have to pay 20 rupees for the use of the rickshaw and an occasional 75 or more for a payoff if a policeman stops them for, say, crossing a street where rickshaws are 2003 study found that rickshaw pullers are near the bottom of Kolkata occupations in ine, doing better than only the ragpickers and the someone without land or education, that still beats trying to make a living in are people in Kolkata, particularly educated and politically aware people, who will not ride in a rickshaw, because they are offended by the idea of being pulled by another human being or because they consider it not the sort of thing people of their station do or because they regard the handpulled rickshaw as a relic of , some of those people are not enthusiastic about banning editor of the editorial pages of Kolkata’s Telegraph—Rudrangshu Mukherjee, a former academic who still writes history books—told me, for instance, that he sees humanitarian considerations as ing down on the side of keeping handpulled rickshaws on the road.“I refuse to be carried by another human being myself,” he said, “but I question whether we have the right to take away their livelihood.” Rickshaw supporters point out that when it es to demeaning occupations, rickshaw pullers are hardly unique in I asked one rickshaw puller if he thought the government’s plan to rid the city of rickshaws was based on a genuine interest in his welfare, he smiled, with a quick shake of his head—a gesture I interpreted to mean, “If you are so naive as to ask such a question, I will answer it, but it is not worth wasting words on.” Some rickshaw pullers I met were resigned to the imminent end of their livelihood and pin their hopes on being offered something in its migrant workers, they don’t have the political clout enjoyed by, say, Kolkata’s sidewalk hawkers, who, after supposedly being scaled back at the beginning of the modernization drive, still clog the sidewalks, selling absolutely everything—or, as I found during the 48 hours of rain, absolutely everything but umbrellas.“The government was the government of the poor people,” one sardar told me.“Now they shake hands with the capitalists and try to get rid of poor people.”But others in Kolkata believe that rickshaws will simply be confined more strictly to certain neighborhoods, out of the view of World Bank traffic consultants and California investment delegations—or that they will be allowed to die out naturally as they’re supplanted by more modern Bhattacharjee, after all, is not the first high West Bengal official to say that rickshaws would be off the streets of Kolkata in a matter of statements have been made as far back as ban decreed by Bhattacharjee has been delayed by a court case and by a widely held belief that some retraining or social security settlement ought to be offered to rickshaw may also have been delayed by a quiet reluctance to give up something that has been part of the fabric of the city for more than a , a resident told me, “has difficulty letting go.” One day a city official handed me a report from the municipal government laying out options for how rickshaw pullers might be rehabilitated.“Which option has been chosen?” I asked, noting that the report was dated almost exactly a year before my visit.“That hasn’t been decided,” he said.“When will it be decided?”“That hasn’t been decided,” he to the passage, rickshaws are used in Kolkata mainly for the following EXCEPT foreign tourists around the transport to school store supplies and purchases people over short of the following statements best describes the rickshaw pullers from Bihar? e from a relatively poor are provided with decent living standards are very low in are often caught by policemen in the “For someone without land or education, that still beats trying to make a living in Bihar”(4 paragraph)means that even so, poor prefer to w