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OKHIL BABU'S HISTORIC LETTER TO THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT
"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmednagar 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 on plateform. I
am got leaved at Ahmenagar station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that damn 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 reason why this letter was of historic value?
It apparently led to the introduction of toilets on trains!!!!
"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmednagar 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 on plateform. I
am got leaved at Ahmenagar station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that damn 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 reason why this letter was of historic value?
It apparently led to the introduction of toilets on trains!!!!