Tuktuk repair workshop outside Hall Bazaar

I excused myself from our able tour guide to walk a few steps so that I could take a closer view of the Khair ud din mosque (see previous picture) and another interesting building (follows immediately after this). As I turned around, I spotted this tuktuk repair workshop outside Hall Bazaar. We rode tuk tuks several times during our visit to Amritsar. These vehicles are put through through absolute hell and competition is intense. They load up to six heavily built adults in (three facing outwards). Going over severely potholed and poorly maintained streets, almost zero suspension in these vehicles means that you are instantly airborne with even the smallest pothole, let alone going into some pothole which appear large enough to swallow the vehicles themselves! Most are fitted with a crude diesel engine, which with a kat kat kat staccato beat makes these ramshackle devices sound like a large overloaded lawn mowers on wheels. (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)

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