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A simple letter in broken english could move the administratin in those days to introduce toilets in Railway coaches, and what a contrast to todays administration! Most of the applications either lie on the table , or ends in the dust bin!
A complaint
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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………………” Sri Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the It was also reproduced under the caption “Travelers’Tales” in the Far Eastern Economic Review. Any guesses why this letter was of historic value?, This letter made the authorities then to introduce toilets in our railway coaches.. |
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