Why is Cyril Tools selling a fountain pen for just ₹9?

The inspiration to sell this fountain pen came from a lesson taught in a first-year college classroom more than a decade ago.

One day, a lecturer looked around a class of 40 students—including Cyril, who later founded Cyril Tools—and asked how many of them used fountain pens.

Nobody raised a hand.

The students explained that they had stopped using fountain pens after school. By the time they entered college, almost everyone had switched to disposable ballpoint pens.

The lecturer then asked another question:

“How long do you normally use a ballpoint pen?”

After thinking about it, the students answered, “Approximately ten days.”

After that, the pen would usually stop working, get lost or simply be thrown away. This meant that each student used around three disposable pens every month.

The lecturer then made a simple calculation.

Forty students using three pens each meant that one classroom was discarding around 120 plastic pens every month—or approximately 1,440 pens every year.

Until that moment, nobody in the classroom, including Cyril, understood where the lecturer was leading the discussion.

The lecturer then asked the students to imagine how many disposable pens were being used across their entire department.

Then he asked them to think about the whole college—and every college, school and workplace across the city, state and country.

That was when the real question became clear:

What kind of pen do we use every day, and where does its plastic body go after we throw it away?

Once a pen enters a waste bin, it disappears from our sight. But the plastic itself does not disappear. Much of this mixed waste eventually reaches landfills, open ground and soil, where it may remain for many years.

Most of us would never knowingly dump plastic into the soil. Yet a small habit, repeated every few days by millions of people, may be contributing to the same problem without us realising it.

At the end of the discussion, the lecturer encouraged every student to start using a fountain pen again.

Cyril followed his advice. More than a decade later, he continues to use fountain pens and still remembers the lesson from that classroom.

A fountain pen is also made of plastic, but it can be refilled and reused for years. Cyril has used only two fountain pens in the past ten years. One reusable pen can replace many disposable pens and help reduce the plastic reaching the soil.

That lesson is why Cyril Tools is offering a refillable fountain pen for just ₹9.

The purpose is not simply to sell a pen. It is to honour a teacher’s valuable lesson and encourage more people to reduce their dependence on frequently discarded plastic pens.

Let us restart a better writing habit—one refillable pen at a time.

This fountain pen is available in 10 colours. ₹9 per pen + shipping charges

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