https://vivekvsp.com/2026/03/the-carts/ The Events in Human Resources and Employee Relations space, and in My World through my eyes. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:47:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://vivekvsp.com/2026/03/the-carts/#comment-66565 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:25:29 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9885#comment-66565 I was moved by your Photos and took me down the memory lane.
I lived in the then Calcutta more than 45 years back and my heart wrenched when I used to see man pulled Rickshaws (or Tongas, if you wish). I had vowed never to sit on them, only to be persuasively told by a friend that by not hiring one, I will have only succeeded in denying that person some income for his livelyhood. Intially I felt this argument to be convenient and opportunistic by when he insisted that unless alternate source of livelyhood can be povided to them, my stand is self defeating. I found merit in what he said and it was not within my means to provide alternate source of livelyhood to the thousands of Rickshaw pullers. So I did what what I did, started availing the rides but not bargaining for the fares. Don’t know whether I adopted an self-serving stance.
Life, I guess is filled with such dialemas and dichtomies. We chose one and comfort ourselves with what we opt.
But what is true is that with sensitive photographers like you photos are not from cameras but from Hearts and Mind
Sorry for the rather long comment.

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