Sulekha and Fountain Pens
The other day, I noticed that a colleague of mine was using a fountain pen. It has been ages since I even saw one, so I took a nice long look at it. It was not the sort of leaking ink pens we used to have in our school days, but a designer pen, pretty expensive. Apparently it is the in thing nowadays to use fountain pens once more, but not the common or garden variety; one must use expensive branded ones. The ink too has to be something other than the royal blue that we were so used to in our student days, purple, or green is the colour of choice. It took me back to a long forgotten part of our school life. One of the things we had to compulsorily do in the morning while packing our books was to fill the fountain pen with ink. Mostly we used to have to unscrew the top of the pen and then use a dropper to fill the reservoir. If one overfilled it, it invariably dripped all over the table and we always had an inky rag handy for these accidents. More expensive pens had a rubber self ...