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[RJman]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...=moreheadlines

Montblanc has unveiled a $23,000 solid gold fountain pen (with garnet accents) commemorating Mahatma Gandhi on the 140th anniversary of his birth. It made a EUR 100,000 donation to a Gandhi foundation and shall donate $1,000 from the sale of each pen to charity... Of course, the cynic in me wonders what they will do with the rest of the enormous profit they will make from the huge markup on their mediocre pen...

Among other things, the pen features spoked detailing to evoke the spinning wheel Gandhi called on each Indian to have in order to create self-sufficiency (swaraj) from the Manchester cloth sold back to them... The pen will be sold in a limited edition of 241, one for each mile Gandhi walked in his nonviolent march to the sea to collect salt in defiance of the British salt tax...

Anyone got a Gandhi facepalm?

 

[HRoi]

guess no one at Montblanc saw the irony of celebrating the life of Gandhi (and presumably, the principles he stood for) with a $23,000 gold bejeweled pen

 

[Big Pun]

Vishnu facepalm would be pretty fitting IMO.

 

[AlanC]

Hilarious. They really ought to do one of those commercials where they computer manipulate old footage to show Gandhi using one of the pens. Maybe he could walk around holding it a la Bob Dole.

 

[lasbar]

Originally Posted by HRoi

guess no one at Montblanc saw the irony of celebrating the life of Gandhi (and presumably, the principles he stood for) with a $23,000 gold bejeweled pen

Irony has always been present in fashion.
Gianni Versace's muse was Donatella, that's ironic..

 

[IndianBoyz]

No thanks I'm saving up for the Reverso, Maharaja edition (1936)