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Blog Entry# 595050
Posted: Nov 27 2012 (22:00)

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Rail Anecdote/Joke
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Nov 27 2012 (22:00)  
 
kyakarun
kyakarun   11 blog posts
Entry# 595050              
Akhil 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 Travelers' Tales" in the Far Eastern Economic Review.
"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
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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. I am therefore pray your honor to make big fine on that
guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers."
[It apparently led to introduction of toilets in trains.]... :-P

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Nov 27 2012 (22:49)
PKV~
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Thanks for posting/sharing. But this is the 100th time that this has been posted on IRI.
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