It was in Class 7 that we were introduced to writing with pen and ink in the year 1974 and my parents bought me a Pilot fountain pen from National Pen Store in Nabha( a small town in Punjab, capital of erstwhile princely state, now famous for Punjab Public School and Horlicks factory) for a sum of Rs. 30/-. It has a pneumatic filler, writes like a dream and after 40 years I still have it. Another pen that was issued from the school stationery shop was a President with eyedropper filler. That fat, black and orange pen which leaked ink if you forgot to put Vaseline on the threads after refilling, was lost and I am still looking for one!
This was the period when the ball pens and roller balls had not made inroads in to our lives. no major exams could be written with any other but a fountain pen. So, for next five years we wrote with fountain pens and that was when I fell in love with fountain pens, inks and different types of paper.
