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AND THE RAILWAYS
ACTED UPON IT !!!!
*Okhil Babu’s letter to the Railway Department (early
1900’s)(adjust with the English he knows !!!!)*
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“I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my
belly is too much
swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just
I doing the
nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off
and I am running
with ‘lotah’in one hand and ‘dhoti’ in the next when I am
fall over and
expose all my shocking to man and female women on plateform.
I am got leaved
at Ahmedpur station. This too much bad, if passenger go to
make dung that
dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am
therefore pray your
honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake.
Otherwise I am making
big report to papers.”
Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj
divisional railway
office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in
New Delhi. It was
also reproduced under the caption “Travellers’ Tales” in the
Far Eastern
Economic Review.
Any guesses why this letter is of historic value?*
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It led to the introduction of TOILETS in trains!!!!
So please don’t think any idea is stupid and discard it.
Always Speak up. |
