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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:30:48 -0400
Subject: Fw. A letter of Historic Importance -1909
| Original from: Dr Sunil Mittal MBBS, MD (Psych) Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Chairman, Cosmos Institute of Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences | |
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| Date: | 4/14/2009 10:05:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time |
| From: | daud46@hotmail.com |
A letter of Historic Importance
-1909
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.
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 I am fall over and
expose all my shocking to man and female women on platform.
I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.
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 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."
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."
Any guesses why this letter was of historic value?
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It apparently led to introduction of toilets in trains.
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Dr Sunil Mittal MBBS, MD (Psych)
Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist
Chairman, Cosmos Institute of Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences (CIMBS)
Director, Cosmos Hospitals
Director, Delhi Psychiatry Centre,
Secretary General, Caring Foundation
Imm Past President, Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (IAPP)
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