The world’s largest pen, a token of appreciation for Indian PM

This 16 feet long, 1-foot-wide and 40kg brass-plated pen isn’t surely for writing, but a token of appreciation for Indian Prime Minister’s recent efforts to help pave the way for the 2010 enactment of India’s Right to Education bill. Designed by the Indian social study teacher, M. Srinivasa Acharya, 50, and given shape by two Hyderabad artists Ratnam and Malikarajan, the world’s largest pen has 10 cylindrical structures joined together. Christened as ‘Bharatiya Pali’ or India’s Pen, it took 56 days and about 450 man hours to shape the sheets of brass into pen and to carve the whole structure with illustrations of Indian culture, Hindu dance forms and musical instruments. The entire project cost Acharya Rs 2.5 lakh ($5,555 USD) and he hopes to present it to PM Manmohan Singh on behalf of all Indians as a thank you for his stern efforts to make the bill pass through.

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Via: AOLNews