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Maharaj   
Member since: Oct 02
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Location: Brampton

Post ID: #PID Posted on: 17-12-03 16:49:13

"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.It apparently led to the introduction of toilets on trains.

This Reminds me "Necessity - mother of all Invention"


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Mumbai Maazi Ladki ...


Desi in Alberta   
Member since: Oct 02
Posts: 247
Location: AB

Post ID: #PID Posted on: 21-12-03 00:38:09

Great stuff!

Do you know why internet was invented? May be for similar reasons!!!





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