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Most of us know about the incident on 2 July 1909, when a gentleman named Okhil Chandra Sen wrote a letter to the Sahibganj Divisional office in West Bengal requesting the authorities to impose a hefty fine on the guard who did not detain the train for some time to let him answer nature's call. In his letter, the disgruntled Okhil lamented that he missed his train at the Ahmedpur railway station. After receiving Okhil's letter and following an investigation into the matter, railway authorities decided to introduce toilets in all lower-class carriages in trains travelling more than 50 miles at that time. I have cited this letter a ...