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Transports of Delight by Manjula Padmanabhan is a satirical essay which discusses the Rickshaw culture in India. She narrates funny incidences which involve her travelling from place to place in an auto rickshaw. She also describes the different types of auto rickshaws. Almost all of these are over exaggerated in their descriptions and seem very unrealistic and obviously are.
Instead of ‘Auto rickshaw’, ‘TSR (Three Wheeled Scooter Rickshaw)’ has been used in the whole essay. This essay has a lot of dry humour which might make the reader bored after a bit of reading. She differentiates TSRs in different areas and different cities and also talks about the decorations on them. These decorations usually have symbolic meaning whether the symbols might of religion or fiction or of anything else, she talk about that.
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The following extracts would help you the grasp the main idea and help you get a clear understanding over this essay:-
(It would be helpful if you have the text side by side as you read these points)
“In the jungle of urban traffic, it is the bumble bee.”
“Indian city streets is an example of the Survival of the Unfittest.”
“A gas trap for poisonous fumes, unstable and flimsy…..as hammer blows to the passenger’s fragile sinews.”
“His chariot took a corner at Grand Prix Speeds.”
“…….yet are fastidious enough to disdain the sweaty intimacies offered by a bus.”
“Though we have reports from Outlook Magazine that women auto rickshaw drivers are flourishing in Kerala here in the wilds of the north it is hard to imagine such a development.”
“Perhaps the reason they are generally very young is that…..warily, as if tensed for attack.”
“The likelihood of finding a driver willing to travel….and desperation of one’s need.”
“In Madras, TSR drivers consider it their privilege…..I’m a rascal I know it.”
“Some drivers swaddle the front and rear wheel guards with webs of metal tubes……of the latest film hits on request.”
“Delhi rickshaw owners seem to prefer verbal messages....…….’Love for Sale – 100% Discount.’”
“There are standard ornaments in the form of 3D reliefs…….Mahavirs or Zoroasters, however!”
“Tweeters have peevishly squawking electric horns…….voiced adolescent boys.”
“There are pin-up girl ……from the walls.”
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Different types of auto rickshaws:
Bikaneri Phut Phut
Autorustic
God’s Rocket
Baroque-on-wheels
Hell’s trishaw
Auto-Ethnotic
Strato-Darter
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