Be like Gandhi – now only $23,000!

Here’s something from our friends at the “what-were-you-thinking” department: Swiss luxury-pen maker Montblanc is marketing a 23,000-dollar fountain pen in gold and silver in memory of Mahatma Gandhi.
I am no Gandhi expert, but the image I have of the man is of a low-couture dresser rejecting material goods and subsisting on a thimble of rice a day. Not of a newly bonused investment banker chasing around the duty-free shops for something particularly ostentatious.
I take the absence of the Gandhi memorial fountain pen on Montblanc’s web site as a sign that someone has brought the company back to its senses. Thank you.