DR.K.V Ramana Murthy

My Pedanana K.V. Ramana Murthy garu Present cheif of Ratnam pen works (Rajamundry) has the distinction of having manufactured the world's smallest pen 3.5cm long and weighing just 1.7gms,with a 14-carat gold nib and ring band.
Miniature gold fountain pens made by K.V Ramana Murthy of Ratnam Ball Pen Works have secured a place in the India Book of Records..
http://ratnamballpens.com/

DR K.V Ramana Murthy

VISIT Of PANDIT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TO K.V.RATNAM'S PEN WORKS 1937

Visit Of PANDIT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU To K.V.RATNAM'S PEN WORKS 1937

SIR ARCHIBALD NYE VISIT ON 11-3-1948 TO RATNAM BALL PENS

SIR ARCHIBALD NYE VISIT ON 11-3-1948 TO RATNAM BALL PENS,

Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye  was a British Army general officer who served in both World War I and World War II. In the latter he served as Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff.After World War II he served as Governor of Madras ,after which  Jawaharalal Nehru asked  him to stay on as High Commissioner in India. He subsequently served as High Commissioner to Canada.

ARCHIBALD NYE

VISIT OF V.V GIRI TO RATNAM BALL PENS

Varahagiri Venkata Giri, commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of the India Visit On 2-8-1937 TO RATNAM BALL PENS

V.V GIRI

JD LAKSHMI NARAYANA WITH KV RAMANA MURTHY IN RATNAM BALL PENS

JD Lakshmi Narayana with KV Ramana murthy in Ratnam Ball Pens
JD. Lakshmi Narayana was a former Joint Director for India's Central Bureau of Investigation.He currently holds Inspector general of police Rank under Y-category security for dealing with high-profile corruption cases.

JD Lakshmi Narayana

INKED IN HISTORY..HISTORY OF RATNAM BALL PENS

Mr. K. V. Ratnam was from a family of goldsmiths who were also involved in making lithographic blocks. He met Gandhiji during the swadeshi movement in 1921. Gandhiji advised K.V Ratnam to make something that could be useful to the common man and that was inexpensive.K.V Ratnam took the suggestions sincerly  and starting thinking In the lines of Gandhji  what to do, That was when they started making pens. In 1932, the first pen was ordered by Nyapati Subba Rao Pantulu, one of the founders of The Hindu. It was made of silver.

Ratnam then made a pen from ebonite material and sent it as a gift to Mahatma Gandhi ,who wrote back to him commending it (scanned copy of the original letter that is displayed in the store),The Ratnam pens retained their status and popularity even after independence and boasts of clients like Sir C.Y chintamani (a well known journalist,politician  was associated with several newspapers and journals),Nyapati Subbarao pantulu(Indian politician and social activist),Ramnath goenka(founder of the Indian Express Group,In 2000 India Today magazine named Ramnath goenka amongst their list of ‘100 People Who Shaped India’),Dr. Rajendra Prasad(was the first President of independent India. was the only president to serve two terms in office),Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan(  received Bharat Ratna award in 1954 before becoming the President of India),Zakir Hussian ( recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Bharat Ratna),V.V Giri(was the fourth President of the India),Jawaharlal Nehru(first Prime Minister of India),Lal Bahadur shastri( was the Second Prime Minister of India,Indira Gandhi(was the third Prime Minister of India,She was also named 'Woman of the Millennium'in a poll organised by the BBC in 1999,Nikita Khrushchev (was a Russian politician and First Secretary of the Central Committeeof the Communist Party of the Soviet Union),and S Kasturiranga Iyengar (founder of The Hindu) among thousands of others.

In the late 1950s, K. V. Narasimhacharyulu, the son of Ratnam went to Germany and on his return started a ballpoint pen manufacturing unit for the first time in India in Rajahmundry. K.V Ramana Murthy garu and his sons Gopala Ratnam and Chandra sekhar continue to run the pen business to this day from Rajahmundry.