Word: ricksha
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...