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Date :14th Oct, 2009 - 14:52

Mention Mahatma Gandhi and many think of fasting, restraint and the struggle for Indian independence.

He renounced material comforts, promoted Indian goods and embraced a simple, ascetic life.

These images jar with German pen maker Montblanc`s launch of a $25,000 pen to mark the 140th anniversary of his birth. Some see it as an insult to him.

One group has filed a lawsuit to try to stop its distribution. Montblanc says it is intended to honour Gandhi.

`A simple lifestyle`

The $25,000 (Ł16,000) gold and silver limited edition pen has an engraving of Mahatma Gandhi, the man seen as the father of Indian independence and revered as a global spiritual leader.


It is a mockery of the great man and an insult to the nation

Dijo Kappen

Critics have questioned if the Montblanc pen is the best way to honour Gandhi. The Center for Consumer Education in Kerala has filed a lawsuit to try to stop distribution of the pen.

"Mahatma Gandhi advocated a simple lifestyle," Dijo Kappen of the centre said.

"He was, of course, a nationalist and, in the nature of the independence movement, the only thing he promoted was Indian-made goods. It is a mockery of the great man and an insult to the nation... to use him as a poster boy."

A fitting tribute?

The limited edition pen is intended to honour Gandhi, the German premium pen maker said. "I certainly have to say, I wouldn`t have thought that people would have reacted negatively," Montblanc`s chief executive Lutz Bethge told the BBC.

"Yes, there were questions asked. Does it make sense to combine Montblanc and Mahatma Gandhi? But from what I noticed people were delighted that we were paying tribute to him."

Just 241 of the handmade pens will be sold, in reference to the number of miles Gandhi walked in his famous march against salt taxes in 1930.

Each comes with an eight-metre golden thread that can be wound around the pen, representing the spindle and cotton Gandhi used to weave simple cloth.

"What we want to do is talk about the values of Mahatma Gandhi as well. And this is certainly a person who believed in non-violence, peace, education and tolerance, and these are universal values," added Mr Bethge.

Gandhi`s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi has endorsed the idea. His charitable foundation has already received a donation of $145,000 from Montblanc and will receive between $200 and $1,000 for each pen sold.

"Part of the proceeds are donated to the Gandhi foundation. That is certainly something Gandhi would have approved of," said Mr Bethge.

For those who find the pen a little out of their price range, there is a more affordable version - there are 3,000 roller ball and fountain pens on sale for about $3,000 dollars each.
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Date :14th Oct, 2009 - 14:47

MUMBAI: The controversy over a brand of luxury pen that depicts Mahatma Gandhi as brand ambassador for its new range spiralled on Thursday. A division bench of the Kerala High Court issued notice to the Central government, Mont Blanc International and other respondents on a writ petition seeking a ban on the sale of the Mont Blanc gold pen that bears the image and signature of Mahatma Gandhi.

The petition has been filed by Dijo Kappen, who is managing trustee of the Centre for Consumer Education at Pala in Kottayam.

In the run-up to the Mahatma`s 140th birth anniversary, Mont Blanc International designed a luxury fountain pen to commemorate the Dandi March. Launched on September 29, the limited edition consists of 241 pens costing Rs 11.39 lakh each. Crafted in solid white gold, it bears a sketch of Gandhiji on the nib, apart from carrying his signature. Each piece is accompanied by saffron-coloured ink, a booklet of Bapu`s quotes and an eight-metre long golden thread that, when wound around the pen, resembles the spindle of the spinning wheel. Another version consists of 3,000 fountain pens and as many roller pens, each costing between Rs 1.47 lakh and Rs 1.67 lakh.

The product was manufactured and marketed with the consent of Tushar Gandhi, Gandhiji`s great-grandson. Mont Blanc has contributed Rs 72 lakh to Tushar`s charity, the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation.

Speaking to TOI from Holland on Friday, Tushar said he was prepared to defend himself in court if the need arose. "The product is a tribute rather than the exploitation of the Mahatma. My conscience is clear because I stand to make no personal profit from the deal. I do not know if I am a respondent in the case, or the locus standi of the petitioner. All I can say is that he is wasting the time of our courts which are already burdened by a high volume of pending cases.``

A spokesperson for Mont Blanc said, "I believe the courts will understand our position for we have taken copyright permission to use Gandhiji`s image and his signature on our product. All legal formalities were completed well before we launched the pen, and moreover, a substantial amount of money from each sale goes to charity.``

As part of the deal, Mont Blanc CEO Lutz Bethge donated Rs 72 lakh towards a children`s shelter being set up by the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation near Kolhapur. "The foundation has acquired a plot where it will rehabilitate rescued child labourers, and the donation will fund the infrastructure needed,`` said Tushar.

The spokesperson added, "We have also reserved Rs 50,000 from the sale of each of the 241 pens to provide education and nutrition to five children for five years. Rs 10,000 will be paid to the shelter from the sale of each of the other 6,000 pens.`` ...

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Date :14th Oct, 2009 - 14:46

MUMBAI: The controversy over a brand of luxury pen that depicts Mahatma Gandhi as brand ambassador for its new range spiralled on Thursday. A division bench of the Kerala High Court issued notice to the Central government, Mont Blanc International and other respondents on a writ petition seeking a ban on the sale of the Mont Blanc gold pen that bears the image and signature of Mahatma Gandhi.

The petition has been filed by Dijo Kappen, who is managing trustee of the Centre for Consumer Education at Pala in Kottayam.

In the run-up to the Mahatma`s 140th birth anniversary, Mont Blanc international designed a luxury fountain pen to commemorate the Dandi March. Launched on September 29, the limited edition consists of 241 pens costing Rs 11.39 lakh each. Crafted in solid white gold, it bears a sketch of Gandhiji on the nib, apart from carrying his signature. Each piece is accompanied by saffron-coloured ink, a booklet of Bapu`s quotes and an eight-metre long golden thread that, when wound around the pen, resembles the spindle of the spinning wheel. Another version consists of 3,000 fountain pens and as many roller pens, each costing between Rs 1.47 lakh and Rs 1.67 lakh.

The product was manufactured and marketed with the consent of Tushar Gandhi, Gandhiji`s great-grandson. Mont Blanc has contributed Rs 72 lakh to Tushar`s charity, the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation.

Speaking to TOI from Holland on Friday, Tushar said he was prepared to defend himself in court if the need arose. ...

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Date :1st Oct, 2009 - 11:55

A pen for Rs 11 lakh as tribute to Mahatma

MUMBAI: Mont Blanc on Tuesday launched a set of premium pens costing Rs 11.3 lakh under its limited-edition series commemorating 241 miles travelled
by Mahatma Gandhi during the Salt March.

Each pen in the series is made of white gold and the entire series is called the `Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition-241`. "The distance of 241 miles which Mahatma Gandhi and his followers travelled by foot during the famous Salt March has inspired the name and limited edition quantity of this outstanding 750 solid white gold piston fountain pen," Mont Blanc CEO Lutz Bethge told reporters.

"Only 241 pens have been produced in the Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition-241 series by Mont Blanc and each pen in the series is around at Rs 11.39 lakh," he said.

Mont Blanc has launched another series — Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition 3000 — whose pens are priced at Rs 1.67 lakh a piece.

"A total of 3,000 fountain pens and 3,000 roller-ball pens have been produced in this series and the pens will be available our all outlets pan-India," Bethge said. Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition 3000 series has been produced in tribute to the many people who had followed Mahatma Gandhi, he said. ...

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Date :28th Sep, 2009 - 06:01

Chennai`s auto drivers feed 500 people

The next seven days from Sunday will be celebrated as the "joy of giving week" across the country. Anyone - children, families, schools and corporates - could do something for a cause. In Chennai, a group of auto-rickshaw drivers provided a sumptuous meal to around 500 people as their contribution.

The auto-rickshaw drivers lead a hand to mouth lives. But that has not stopped them from being generous in their giving.

On day one of the joy of giving week, 30 drivers contributed Rs 1000 each to give a sumptuous free meal to over 500 strangers.

"Being an auto driver is like a social service to take people to hospitals and other places in their emergencies. And when we feed people we get an overwhelming peace in our mind," said Mohan, an auto-rickshaw driver.

Many were pleasantly surprised and touched by the gesture of this community that`s often accused of fleecing passengers.

"Even if you give lots of money to someone none will be happy. But if you provide food when one is hungry both the giver and the recipient are happy," said a Chennai resident.

It`s a lesson from few simple men - the joy of giving is all about how big your heart is and not how deep is your pocket.


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Date :28th Sep, 2009 - 05:58

What a child doesn`t receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. James

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Publilius Syrus

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it`s the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that`s weighed.
Seneca

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
Publilius Syrus

Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.
Kashmiri Proverb

You can no more give what you haven`t learned than you can come back from a place you`ve never been.
Author Unknown

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get
Author Unknown

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller


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Date :28th Sep, 2009 - 05:57

“Giving” is a virtue, means to bestow, especially officially, confer; to accord or tender to another, to entrust to another. This is the Law of all creation: Give and you shall receive. "Give and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." "Every good and perfect gift comes from above, from the Father of Lights.

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it`s a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer


Giving quotes give you an insight to the feeling of gratitude towards somebody in which the person feels from the heart, the pleasure of bestowing some of his own pleasures onto somebody. A gift or present is the transfer of money, goods, etc., without the direct compensation that is involved in trade, although possibly involving a social expectation of reciprocity, or a return in the form of prestige or power. In many human societies, the act of mutually exchanging gifts contributes to social cohesion, and the Giving quotes highlight this phenomenon of the human society.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there`s nothing more to give.
Sparky Anderson

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Baltasar Gracian

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
Richard Braunstein

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
Eleanor Hamilton

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Lao-Tzu

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
Euripides

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.
Anthony Norvell

It`s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa

Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man`s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
William Shakespeare

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
John Wesley

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They`re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love`s reach.
Margaret Cho

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas

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