Thursday, August 7, 2008

Just as I doing the nuisance...

Some Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahabgunj divisional railway office in 1909.

"I am arrive by passenger train at Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore sent to privy. Just as I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with lota in one hand and dhoti in the next when I fall over and expose all my shockings to many female women on the platform. I am got leaved on 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 otherwise I am making big report to papers. Pray your honor to make big fine on that dam guard for public sakeotherwise I am making big report to papers ."

The letter is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. Do you know why?? Because it led to the introduction of toilets in trains.

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