Indian hand-pulled rickshaw pullers stand beside their rickshaws at workshop in Kolkata.
Indian hand-pulled rickshaw pullers stand beside their rickshaws at a workshop in the eastern India city of Kolkata August 16, 2005. Communist authorities in India's eastern city of Kolkata said on Monday they would ban hand-pulled rickshaws, calling the popular century-old transport "inhumane". REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw JS/TC