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alainloss: Oblivious to the passing trains, traders and consumers alike encroach on the tracks
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alainloss: Despite repeated fatal accidents fish trading continues along the rail tracks
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alainloss: Bangladesh has the fifth-largest number of leprosy cases in the world
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alainloss: Hawkers cut and slice the fish on the edge of the rail tracks
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alainloss: Makeshift fish market set up on the railway lines
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alainloss: Dhaka kid living on the edge
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alainloss: Surviving along the rail tracks
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alainloss: Prawn vendor seated on the tracks
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alainloss: Porter carrying a large basket on his head
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alainloss: Street vendor carrying live chickens
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alainloss: Street hawker head-carrying Dragon fruits
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alainloss: Empty basket used as a shield against the sun
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alainloss: Rickshaw puller awaiting his next ride
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alainloss: Chai break for this fish hawker
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alainloss: Papaya and henna
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alainloss: Illegal slum set up along the rail tracks
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alainloss: Cycle rickshaws are the preferred mode of transport in Dhaka
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alainloss: Bangladesh saying: don't put all your eggs in the same rickshaw
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alainloss: Dhaka has been dubbed the slowest city in the world. The average speed of vehicles is a meagre 4.8 km per hour. Rickshaws are no exception
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alainloss: Rickshaw puller with an expressive face
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alainloss: Rickshaw puller with a half-dyed beard
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alainloss: Rickshaw driver pulling his cycle crammed with goods
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alainloss: Line of carts, rickshaws and porters
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alainloss: Dwarf resting on a cycle rickshaw with the puller presumably behind him
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alainloss: Dhaka offers chaotic and unpredictable congestions
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alainloss: Pedalling for 12 hours straight earns merely 3 to 4 euros a day
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alainloss: Rickshaws are often adorned with pop art posters and shiny decorations
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alainloss: Rickshaw driver absorbed in his thoughts
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alainloss: Life of a rickshaw puller is exhausting and draining
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alainloss: Dhaka is known as the rickshaw capital of the world. About one million of them, licensed and unlicensed, criss-cross the city