Nataraj Stripes Wooden Pencils

Features

• Dazzling design for fun filled writing.
• Super black lead for clear writing.
• Soft wood for easy sharpening.

Nataraj Stripes Wooden Pencils

BRAND INFORMATION

Hindustan Pencils Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian manufacturer of pencils, writing materials, and other stationery items, established in 1958 in Bombay (present-day Mumbai). The company makes writing implements under the brands Nataraj and Apsara and claims to be the largest pencil manufacturer in India. The Nataraj 621 HB wood-cased pencil has a distinctive red-and-black stripe design.

Hindustan Pencils also produces a line of colored pencils under the Colorama brand. In 2013, a law student in Bangalore filed a consumer complaint against the company over its colored pencils, claiming that the “skin” color was lighter than his own skin color and that the company’s preference for the lighter “skin” color promoted “racist ideas”. The “skin” colored pencil was also the subject of a campaign by anti-discrimination activist group Brown n’ Proud.