Allahabad – Rickshaw Challenge https://www.rickshawchallenge.com Pure Adventure! Wed, 29 May 2013 11:26:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://rickshawchallenge.gamblingzion.com/uploads/2019/08/cropped-RC-FB-no-background-32x32.png Allahabad – Rickshaw Challenge https://www.rickshawchallenge.com 32 32 Indian Well of Death Riders https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2013/05/29/indian-well-of-death-riders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indian-well-of-death-riders https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2013/05/29/indian-well-of-death-riders/#respond Wed, 29 May 2013 11:26:51 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/?p=10793 Indian Well of Death Riders
From music channel Noisey:
‘Mercury music prize nominees Django Django became obsessed by the infamous Indian Well of Death riders in Allahabad. So, naturally, they asked Noisey if we’d be up for travelling over to India and standing right in the middle of large lumps of precariously speeding metal for a day, to film a video for their track “Wor”. We happily obliged, getting our shoes stolen in the process, but it was worth it to meet a bunch of guys with the most rock solid testicles we’ve ever come across.’

]]> https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2013/05/29/indian-well-of-death-riders/feed/ 0 Protesting rickshaw pullers refuse rides to govt employees in Allahabad https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/11/protesting-rickshaw-pullers-refuse-rides-to-govt-employees-in-allahabad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=protesting-rickshaw-pullers-refuse-rides-to-govt-employees-in-allahabad https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/11/protesting-rickshaw-pullers-refuse-rides-to-govt-employees-in-allahabad/#respond Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:00:39 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/rkch/blog/?p=1558 “This service is not available for government employees”, read the handbills that have been pasted on hundreds of rickshaws in Allahabad. To protest against the government’s nonchalance to their demand of special rickshaw parking zones and night shelters, around 20,000 rickshaw pullers in the city have refused to give a ride to government employees.
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