COMPLAINT LETTER TO THE RAILWAYS IN 1909
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This complaint is part of Railway Museum at New Delhi.............
COMPLAINT LETTER TO THE RAILWAYS IN 1909!!!
Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway department:
I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit.
I am running with lotaah in one hand and dhoti in the next when I am fall over
and expose all my shocking to man and female women on platform.
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.
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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.
Hope you had a good laugh at the vocabulary of Okhil Chandra Sen.
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Now the most importatnt part
Any guesses why this letter is of historic value?
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It led to the introduction of TOILETS in trains in India.....!!!!
So please don't think any idea is stupid and discard it.
Always Speak up.
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