This is rickshaw. Also known as machar (Mosquito) in Lahore. If you have been to Lahore you are very much familiar with its structure and its noise. people of Lahore are also called open hearted people. But I think someone has forgot to say Lahore a city of open hearted and closed ears. Not because they are not good in hospitality and insert their fingers in their ears when any foreigner speaks to them. The truth is that lahoris bear the noise of this ignitable mosquito with 3 seater on back and of course one at the front.
This vehicle is unique of its kind. First of all if a rickshaw comes in front of your vehicle which is I guess not a rickshaw, it would be difficult even for Michael Schumacher to overtake this vehicle and get out of its range. You might think that it has a very high speed with boosters on its back and can compete formula one racing cars. But I tell you that you are wrong. The fact is that when the driver of rickshaw comes to know that someone wants to overtake him, he increases the speed and then comes in the middle of road. If you want to overtake him from right, which he is watching from his rear mirror he will turn his mosquito to the right and same in the case of left. And the driver wants to tell you that his rickshaw is capable enough to compete your vehicle in the race competition. One of the very interesting thing about rickshaw is that its back is full of poetry or some funny stuff which makes you laugh on the road and people might think that you have gone insane. One of its kind which I read was “I will become aero plane when I will get older” (Main bhara ho kar hawai jahaz banon ga). There are so many others which I can’t even translate in English. You have to learn Urdu to read this funny kind of stuff.
If you have travelled alone you are lucky enough. But if you are a school boy or girl and a rickshaw is appointed to pick and drop you from school then I have a deep pity in my heart. 10 boys and girls sitting in the back with their school bags and the seat is only designed for three people. Well don’t forget the front seat there is lot of space with the driver. Two of the students sit with the driver. And if there was enough space the driver could adjust a student sitting on his shoulder. But what can he do. The rickshaw designer was having a small brain otherwise he would have not designed a ceiling on it.
Apart from noise there is another thing that it emits so much amount of smoke that it can fulfill your desire of 10 cigarettes in 3 minutes. I am not joking, believe me. Your face will turn black and you want to get out of its range but in vain. You are not able enough to compete the driver and his beautiful smoke emitting and noise making 3 seater mosquito. And if there are two to three rickshaws in a row you must stop at a shop and have a coke coz it will make you relax and calm otherwise it would not be a good day for your children.
In the end I would like to dedicate a poem to rickshaw
Rickshaw on the left
Rickshaw on the right
Rickshaw on the back
Rickshaw on the flight
Rickshaw with the voice
Makes a Lahori
Beaten up by his wife
1 comment:
This one is just awesome...I would wait for more of them :P
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