{"id":43605,"date":"2022-04-16T23:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/16\/women-with-electric-rickshaws-combat-delhi-toxic-air-and-its-sexism"},"modified":"2022-04-16T23:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:04:34","slug":"women-with-electric-rickshaws-combat-delhis-toxic-air-and-its-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43605","title":{"rendered":"Women with electric rickshaws combat Delhi\u2019s toxic air \u2013 and its sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Break into male-dominated public-transport helps tackle city\u2019s pollution crisis and safety concerns<\/p>\n<p>Monika Devi is thrilled to be driving her autorickshaw. The 35-year-old has two reasons to be particularly proud as she winds her way through New Delhi\u2019s insanely congested streets.<\/p>\n<p>She is one of the first women to be driving one of the three-wheeled taxis that swarm the roads of the Indian capital. And she is driving one of Delhi\u2019s first e-rickshaws \u2013 part of the city\u2019s drive to tackle its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/16\/soaring-pollution-has-delhi-considering-full-weekend-lockdown\" title=\"\">notoriously filthy air<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/16\/women-with-electric-rickshaws-combat-delhi-toxic-air-and-its-sexism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Break into male-dominated public-transport helps tackle city\u2019s pollution crisis and safety concernsMonika Devi is thrilled to be driving her autorickshaw. The 35-year-old has two reasons to be particularly proud as she winds her way through New Delhi\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[353,2623,65,303,62,466,61,2436,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-electric-hybrid-and-low-emission-cars","category-environment","category-ethical-and-green-living","category-india","category-pollution","category-south-and-central-asia","category-travel-and-transport","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43606,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605\/revisions\/43606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}