The end is coming, though admittedly it may not look that way at 10 a.Looking around the cramped classrooms, you might think that the typewriter still has a future in India. "I’ll keep it alive as long as possible. But in one of the last places in the world where it remains a part of everyday life, twilight is at hand. There are long-outdated government regulations that, for now, help the typewriter cling to life.

There are a handful of typewriter repairmen and stores selling spare parts.India still has a few thousand remaining professional typists. But after me, I don’t know what’s going to happen..Even Sunil Chawla will tell you that, and he’s kept Chawla Typewriter going long after the profits disappeared."For now, only one thing keeps him in the business: "I’m a typewriter man," he said. There are typing polyester ribbon wholesale schools that, at least occasionally, are jammed with students. on a Tuesday morning, when dozens of young Indians have arrived for morning classes at Anand Type, Shorthand and Keypunch College, and every battered Remington is clattering away.m. There’s no future in this business." Plus, people do continue to send him typewriters to fix, though most of his work these days is selling supplies for copiers and laminating machines. "We thought this business would go on forever and ever," said Chawla, a courtly man whose father founded the family company nearly 60 years ago, but whose own sons chose to avoid the typewriter business. "I still have a soft spot for them, and I don’t want to let it go.