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When using a train toilet, thank Okhil Babu for his hilarious letter
"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."
One Okhil Chandra Sen had written this hilarious letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. The letter is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. This letter supposedly led to the introduction of toilets on trains.
Last year on April 13, a Google Doodle celebrated 160 years of the gigantic Indian Railways, which is a treasure trove of such historical nuggets.
For example, how many of us know that the idea of a railway to connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thal and Bhore Ghats inclines first occurred to George Clark, the Chief Engineer of the Bombay government, during a visit to Bhandup in 1843?
The idea took the form of reality and the first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane on April 16, 1853. The importance of the day can be gauged from the fact the Bombay government declared the day as a public holiday.
The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly, a distance of 24 miles, on August 15, 1854, exactly 91 years before the country was to become Independent.
In 1951, the system was nationalised, making Indian Railways one of the largest networks in the world.
When using a train toilet, thank Okhil Babu for his hilarious letter : North, News - India Today
"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."
One Okhil Chandra Sen had written this hilarious letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. The letter is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. This letter supposedly led to the introduction of toilets on trains.
Last year on April 13, a Google Doodle celebrated 160 years of the gigantic Indian Railways, which is a treasure trove of such historical nuggets.
For example, how many of us know that the idea of a railway to connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thal and Bhore Ghats inclines first occurred to George Clark, the Chief Engineer of the Bombay government, during a visit to Bhandup in 1843?
The idea took the form of reality and the first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane on April 16, 1853. The importance of the day can be gauged from the fact the Bombay government declared the day as a public holiday.
The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly, a distance of 24 miles, on August 15, 1854, exactly 91 years before the country was to become Independent.
In 1951, the system was nationalised, making Indian Railways one of the largest networks in the world.
When using a train toilet, thank Okhil Babu for his hilarious letter : North, News - India Today
