Trains and Toilets - What triggers Innovation?
My friend KGR Doss put this up:
Trivia - Trains and Toilets
Always Speak up
#-Link-Snipped-#“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.â€
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.
Any guesses why this letter is of historic value?
It led to the introduction of TOILETS in trains!!!!![[IMG]](proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fiys.radhagopinath.com%2Fwp-includes%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Ficon_smile.gif&hash=8354eb5a4105d009b5888be48e66cc73)
So please don’t think any idea is stupid and discard it. Always Speak up
On lighter note........
So due to Jack fruit we got toilets in Railways!! Also I thank God that it happened in 1909, if that case happens today then our Politicians will ban eating Jack fruit during journey rather than introducing toilets to Railways.
Trivia - Trains and Toilets
Always Speak up
Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway Department(early 1900s - Imagine a Bangla accent)
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.
Any guesses why this letter is of historic value?
It led to the introduction of TOILETS in trains!!!!
So please don’t think any idea is stupid and discard it. Always Speak up
On lighter note........
So due to Jack fruit we got toilets in Railways!! Also I thank God that it happened in 1909, if that case happens today then our Politicians will ban eating Jack fruit during journey rather than introducing toilets to Railways.
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