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Stationery trends I experienced as an Indian schoolkid that occupy far too much space in my brain (and heart). A thread:
Camlin Flora pencils. Absolute OG.
Camlin Exam pencils. I believe their tagline used to be "Extra marks for good handwriting"? What LIES. Still, everyone used to carry these.
Must've been 2003 or something when suddenly everyone started to carry around these Faber Castell triangular pencils instead of your normal hexagonal Natraj or Flora pencils. Odd memory: They even had this teeny space where you could write your name on the pencil.
Speaking of Natraj, I'll just go ahead and include everything they've ever made on this list. ICONIC
Apsara shading pencils. Every aspiring art hoe carried these pencils around with them in school. That 6B pencil was a huge bitch to keep because the lead would keep disintegrating and dirtying up the insides of pencil boxes
While on the topic of annoying, let's talk about scented erasers. The epitome of "All style, no substance". They smelled pleasantly fruity, and God forbid if you tried to erase something with them, you'd end up with unsightly holes on the page. BUT THEY WERE CUTE.
Ink erasers get tons of hate. We had to use them for 1 year in 5th std. because we weren't allowed to carry whiteners (YET). They were like tiny rocks and would destroy the page, but only if you used them wrong. Also they were great for chucking at people who pissed you off.
LET'S TALK ABOUT WHITENER PENS. While they did their job of covering up mistakes on paper perfectly, their illegal uses are what elevate them above all else. Were you really in 7th std. if all the desks weren't covered in swear words and Linkin Park lyrics scrawled in whitener?
I don't know what to call these, but I knew maybe 3 people in class that had them. Those ridiculously extra pencil boxes that had a million buttons, drawers, and secret compartments and looked like they could fold into a tiny Gundam. A friend's box even had a magnifying glass. 
I'm gonna pause for a bit now because this list keeps growing exponentially. But if anyone feels like adding to this thread go ahead lol
