My Ratnamson Pens

Huh.... Finally, I have my two new Ratnam fountain pens (Size 302) in myhands...!

This is a pen company founded in 1932 and its first fountain pen was gifted to Mahatma Gandhi... As I am a strict fountain pen user/maniac, I decided to get hold of a few of these pens and add them to my collection ofother ebonite fountain pens (Advocate and Prasad Pens).

I don't believe in using any foreign made fancy fountain pens (Parker, Waterman, Sheaffer etc...... There has to be an interesting history behind them....These Ratnam pens write sooooo smoothly.... ! I am absolutely in love with them....As they say, "Once you hold a Ratnam pen, you will never hold anything else....!". For all of you fellow fountain pen fans/freaks, here is the address of Ratnam Pen Works... You can call Mr. K.V.Ramanamurthy on the number specified and order the pens you like....

Mr. K.V.Ramanamurthy
Ratnam Ball Pen Works,
10-7-18, Fort Gate,
Rajahmundry
Andhra Pradesh
India
533101
Ph: 0883 - 2498782

Which is this road in Bangalore....??

Those who live in this area will surely know the road I am talking about.This is the Doddanekkundi Main Road near Marathalli.

As a resident of thearea I am used to seeing the good old, battered Doddanekkundi Main Roadeveryday. In fact I don't even think it qualifies to be called a road atall...because... There is no road.!

I am one of those hundreds of people whouse this road (?) everyday to travel to work... The 7 minute bumpy ride tomy office is still a lot better than the 30 minutes of traffic jam I have to go through if try and avoid going through this road.I am very emotionally attached to this road.... I have seen it serving its purpose through the summer, monsoon, winter, spring..... and the cycle goeson and on... It is a visual treat to watch people trying to wade through thelarge pools of water that accumulate on this road during the monsoon...
The danger part aside, I think people using this road have grown so used to itthat they have now actually started enjoying the experience...!! Nobody iscomplaining....So, I was taken aback when one day I noticed that somebody has actually madeit qualified enough to be called a road by asphalting it...!! That's it...all those joy rides, water pool adventures etc are gone...!!

I decided to go through this transformed Dodanekkundi road on my BajajPulsar 150 DTSi bike.... As I started going through it and traveled about afew hundred meters on it... I reached the other end of this newly done roadand was in for a pleasant surprise.....!!

All is not lost as yet......

This is how it looks half way through! Brilliant.... Simply brilliant....!!

On the face value of it, it just looks that the entire road has been doneup. But nothing has changed... Talk about politicians playing tricks on thejanatha to get their votes..! I don't know if this has anything to do with theupcoming elections in Karnataka but I have a feeling it has...

Doddanekkundi key vaasiyon ! Iss raat ki subah naheen......