The last rickshaw

The 18,000 rickshaw pullers of Calcutta are fighting to keep their jobs. ''We don't feel any indignity, pulling a rickshaw is not worst than working in a coal mine; we got families to support'', they say. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee hopes to recast Calcutta as a hub of information technology, shaking off the perceptions of the city as a pit of poverty: he announced that "barbaric" rickshaw would be outlawed..A rickshaw puller sit on his rickshaw in Sudder Street.