"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