Tracing Tea, the international collaboration of four students and a film crew who have a love of tea strong enough to survive 15,000 km in three-wheeled auto-rickshaws, celebrates the 350th anniversary of tea’s introduction to Britain. The expedition will trace stories entwined with tea, tales of espionage, warfare, philosophy and medicine. Concerned that Land Rover’s...Read More
Tuk-Tuk to the Road: Two Girls, Three Wheels, 12,500 miles Summer, 2006 Jo Huxster and Ants Bolingbroke-Kent decided to drive a tuk tuk from Bangkok — to Brighton, a mere 12,561 miles away. Their mission: to raise GBP50 000 for the mental health charity Mind. Tuk Tuk to the Road is the inspirational story of the ultimate road...Read More
Rickshaaa! (2006) A Film on Three Wheels, a documentary about autorickshaws: “They think they are the Michael Schumachers with their personal Ferraris… on the goddam roads!!!” Trailer A look at the Bajaj autorickshaw factory in Aurangabad, India. Footage shot for the documentary.Read More
Two tuk tuk tubes below: Tube 1: Tuk-Tuk Documentary: from manufacture to customer. Tube 2: La Tuk Tuk Sauvage – the high tuk tuk ride, Jim Morrison style… You could be next!Read More
See below some of this year pranks – no rickshaw stuff so far… Google, which has a long history of April Fools trickery, has a link on its home page today that reads, “Introducing CADIE: a singular upgrade to your online life” that stands for Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity. It links here, to an announcement...Read More
Pic of the week is the Tuk-Tuk in Laos No sudden screeching. I see the crash coming a long way off from the back of my tuk-tuk: a sheet-metal “three-wheel” auto-rickshaw stinking of petrol… Full article hereRead More
The environmentally responsible Bat-Tuk-Tuk Batman cares about the environment. After the Tumbler was destroyed, Alfred talked Bruce into investing in a new environmentally friendly Batmobile. But when Batman found out that he has to clean the car himself, he wasn’t too pleased. The Rubyred’s Bat-Tuk-Tuk t-shirt is cool, a bit pricey – from $26.53 Check it...Read More
Autorickshaw driver AMAL is content with the small but vital role he serves – driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal’s humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. Now, with only one month...Read More
