Word: ricksha
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...This not what I expected," says Camilla, 22, a psychology student visiting from Sweden. "Not at all. I mean, you're in Indiayou've got to see the Taj, the lovely, beautiful Taj. But all I've been doing since I got here is shouting and screaming at ricksha drivers. The whole thing is just one big irritation...
...Most likely the tuk tuk will eventually go the way of the samlor and of its person-powered relative, the ricksha, becoming just another tourist curio and footnote in the annals of Asian transport. But to watch tuk tuks zigzagging cheekily through cracks in the traffic, to listen to that deafening two-stroke note that sounds like a defiant raspberry directed at detractors, is to realize that the tuk tuk is not going to go without a fight...
...again, legislators in his own Jatiya Party were resigning last week and even military loyalists encouraged him to go. Scandals, a tyrant's image and a 50% rise in oil prices since the Persian Gulf crisis broke out sealed his doom. Said one movement leader: "From government officers to ricksha pullers, all were out in the street. It was phenomenal." It will also be phenomenal if democracy manages to heal a country that was born in a brutal secession from Pakistan in 1971 and has stumbled from coup to coup since...
...capital city of Dhaka, where the President's residence was knee-deep in water, streets had been transformed into canals. Boatmen were charging whatever the market would bear to move people to safe ground, but some clung to the roofs of their flooded huts to ward off looters. Ricksha Driver Mohammed Nasser, 18, boasted that he was making $5 a day carrying passengers through flooded streets. He will need the money: the shanty he shared with his mother and sister was washed away...
...invasion of the real world, as even the most faraway places get placed in the sights of the superpowers. Tibet was stormed by the Chinese, and now the dreamed-of Shangri- La is vanished forever; Cambodia was caught in a cross fire, and an earthly paradise so gentle that ricksha drivers were said to tip their passengers is now a land of skulls; Afghanistan was overrun by Soviet tanks, and now a book of photographs remembering its fugitive beauties is subtitled, mournfully, Paradise Lost. In an age when airlines and satellites are rapidly turning the global village into the smallest...