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Monday, July 14, 2014

Women cycling in India

In a poor country like India cycling to work is common, but it is the men who usually do it. Sure, upper class women cycle for exercise or leisure  but women's emancipation is more for the upper classes. Well-to-do Indian women do drive to work in motor vehicles but women from the poorer classes avoid taking a cycle to work, unlike their men.
Women cycling to work have been spotted in Puducherry or Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu, and Pune in Maharashtra. These photographs have all been taken in Puducherry.

This is a photograph of a girl in a pink salwar kameez cycling in a village near Puducherry.

Indian girl cycling


A woman in Puducherry on a cycle.

Woman cycling to work


A foreigner cycling in Puducherry, Tamil Nadu. Plenty of people cycle for leisure in Puducherry, and so do the tourists.

white woman on cycle in Puducherry

Related Pictures: Puducherry or Pondycherry or check out all the posts on Puducherry or Women.
You might also like:  Boy on cycle with his mother in rural India or Cycle carts with three wheels or Cycle Rickshaws in India or Cyclist Silhouette and Sketch or Man ferrying cycle in canoe


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