The rickshaw’s progress

The explosive growth of cycle rickshaws in Delhi, the Supreme Court recently observed, cannot be curbed by establishing a cap on their numbers. What the court left unsaid was that when an economy decides to move at the pace of cycle rickshaws, plying them could almost be a national duty. But that pace of growth of rickshaws shows why we are hurtling downwards. Indian cities are now littered with workers who have nowhere else to go.

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