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India's forbidden rickshaws still run

The practice of pulling passengers by rickshaw is illegal in India, but that doesn't stop the pullers from working. Miranda Kennedy talks to a rickshaw worker who's still in the family business for $3 a day.

An Indian rickshaw puller the rain to look for passengers in Calcutta. (Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images)

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