https://www.rickshawchallenge.com Pure Adventure! Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:04:35 +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 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com 32 32 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/09/21/extraordinary-indian/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=extraordinary-indian https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/09/21/extraordinary-indian/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:04:35 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/rkch/blog/?p=1228 An autorickshaw driver who gives free rides to the blind, donates money to an old age home and is trying to raise funds for the treatment of a sandwich vendor.
Sandeep Bachhe is an autorickshaw driver in Mumbai. More of him later, but first let me take you through his wonder autorickshaw. It has a television set tuned to good old Doordarshan — which incidentally is celebrating 50 years of transmission in India. Then there is also a board with the day’s price of gold, silver, dollar, pound and the yen.
Behind the driver’s seat hangs another chart with phone numbers of hospitals, theatres, hotels and airlines. You can also pick up the day’s papers and a couple of magazines in the rack behind him. ‘Do not spit,’ another notice admonishes you. There are pictures of Gods from all major religions. “All are welcome,” he says with a smile.
“I have been driving an autorickshaw for ten years. Whatever money I make I first give my family. The little that can spare, I give it to an old age home. During the beginning of the academic year for schools, we try and distribute notebooks to needy students.”
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