TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION

Turning the pages of History.
Though train tracks  were laid much before 1909,there did not exist any toilet in any of the  bogies of passenger or express trains.
Sometimes in the year of 1908,a train came and halted at a station Called Ahmedpur in Birbhum district West bengal.
One Bengali gentleman  sri Okhil Chandra Sen had to go the platform enclosed toilet to attend to the nature's call. While easing himself, he heard the whistle of the train indicating departure from the station. Somehow he came out of the toilet holding the lota ( spherical ware vessel made of copper or aluminium)in one hand and the edge  of  dhooti on the other and started running towards the train which by then was leaving the station slowly.He even signalled the guard to stop the train but the guard did not pay heed  to his request and in his bid to board the train, he overturned on the platform in an awkward position. Having been felt insulted, he left the station and subsequently wrote a letter of complaint
to the authority in the year of 1909 that  it
was  necessart  for making arrangements of  a toilet in the train for convenience of the passengers.He stated that his stomach was highly overcast coupled with matching bolts and lightening due to overeating of jackfruits the previous night that made him compelled to go to the station enclosed toilet but the guard was heartless not to take his genuine problem in consideration and waived at the train to leave the station leaving him in lurch. The same letter is still kept in the Delhi Railway museum and the Britishers took immediate  steps to introduce the toilet in the trains.
Please salute that Bengali gentleman if you happen to use the toilet now even during your train journey.
The letter in original.....
A letter  which  created history*
Date: 02 - 07 - 1909
Divisional Railway Officer,
Sahibgunj,

Respected Sirs,
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 or train to go off and I am running with lotaah 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  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.(ORIGINAL LETTER)

Your faithful Servant,
Okhil Chandra Sen

(THIS IS A TRUE INCIDENT)