The Fountain Pen- A Nostalgia Today

 The Mighty Pen.


A Nostalgic Blog.

In School,as we leave Primary and enter Secondary School....
Transition from 4th std to 5th std.....
Feeling of growing up.
Leaving the Lead Pencil,Rubber and Sharpner behind.
Moving on to Fountain Pen and Camlin Compass Box.
Both matter of Pride.
Fountain Pen..
Beginning was the simple modest 3 or 4 Rs Pen.
Filling ink into it with dropper.Scratching it's new Nib on the Floor to smoothen it's tip.
Sunday ritual of cleaning the nib and the nib holder.
Jerking the Pen if it stopped writing to allow freeflow of ink.Getting scolded by Teacher if ink sprinkled and stained her saree🫣😬
High School gave me China Pen.Self filling dropper in built.The Nib was fine.
So no cleaning and no staining.
10th std saw me shifting from Royal Blue ink to Black ink as it made my words brighter.🙄😁
School over.The Fountain pen got replaced by Gel pen.
Today occasionally I do write with Fountain pen.
But they are expensive Parker,Mont Blanc,Pierre Cardin.
They write beautiful and are Swanky,Classy.
My Laptop has replaced my Pen- Fountain or Gel.Words are now just click of my finger.

I miss my Fountain pen Rs 4,Camel company, a lot.Reminds me of my wonderful School days.
The ink on the faded papers tell stories of yesterday .

Dr Tripti Milind Galgali
Hubli.

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