Daka is the fastest growing and most densely settled mega city in the world. The only way that anyone gets around in daka, that anything happens at all, is because of these pedal driven rickshaws. i spent a lot of time with a rikshaw polaragi named mohammed abul badsha,. who's older than most of them, in his fifties, around my age. And learned about his life and what it was like to navigate this amazing, but really, in traffic terms and other terms, seething city.
Jody Rosen is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and a bike nut who has just published a rousing (and sometimes arousing) book called “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.” Today, he takes us on a rollicking ride through the two-wheeled revolution, revealing the surprising ways bicycles have shaped the world in which we live.
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