** Okhil Babu’s letter to the Railway Department
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.**
"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 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."
billy kaheen ke
