Anoushey Ashraf attempted to normalise public transport for well-to-do but instead, got schooled for her tone-deaf tweet about rikshaws and what constitutes as public transport. Host and RJ called rickshaw ride “Relatively safe and cheap” adventure. She demanded that people like herself be allowed to use facility without turning heads.

Taking to twitter, she shared video of herself in rickshaw to narrate, “I got offered sympathy ride when someone saw me getting into rickshaw today. I thought it’d be an adventure, was close to home, relatively safe (you can jump out) and cheap. But seeing ‘well off’ person in rick (shaw) can really worry people here! Normalise public transport for all.”

Given that rickshaws are expensive for lot of people in this country, Ashraf’s tone-deaf remark did not sit well with her followers.

Published in The Daily National Courier, March, 10 2023

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