Occupational hazard as rickshaw pullers brave New Delhi’s toxic air

▶ Pollution in the city spiked this week but workers were unable to seek shelter, writes Taniya Dutta

Half of my daily income goes in paying the rent of the rickshaw and then I have to buy day-to-day supplies MANOJ LOHAR Rickshaw puller

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As Satyadev Singh sits on his flashy cycle rickshaw waiting for passengers in a bustling market in central New Delhi he fights a bout of coughing. “I feel choked because of the bad air,” said Mr Singh, one of the thousands of poor migrant rickshaw...

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