These white-gold writing instruments depicting Gandhi holding lathi (cudgel), inspired by Gandhi’s 241-mile 1930 Dandi March, are priced up to about 29,000 dollar, and include a hand-crafted rhodium plated 18-carat gold nib.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada, United States of America, said that Mahatma Gandhi worked for the welfare of all and in the same spirit, Montblanc should go beyond the mercantile greed and help the organisations working to spread Gandhi’s message of peace.

Montblanc, launched in 1906 and based in Hamburg (Germany) with operations in over 70 countries, has been known as maker of sophisticated high-quality writing instruments, but it has now added luxury leather goods, jewellery, eyewear, fragrance and watches to its products list. Its parent company Richemont, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, owns several of the world’s leading companies in luxury goods. Johann Rupert is its executive chairman while Norbert Platt is chief executive officer.