Click in hand, let us fight the pandemic – Harsh Gagwani The pandemic has impacted us in a thousand different ways, mostly negative. None of us wanted to, or liked the way we were forced to remain indoors during the lockdown, forcing us to cope up with the attendant problems,
Anupam Bharatiya – the fountain pen with the Nawabi Tehzeeb, refinement that was Anupam, yet Bharatiya! My search for fountain pens that were made in India, the desire to document their history and add some to my collection wherever possible, takes me to myriad places. Sometimes the cache of
Fountain Pen Culture – ushering-in a new dawn in Bangladesh The Genesis As a Facebook community group, Fountain Pen Culture is fairly new, having started just a few months back. But our ideological fight is at least two decades old – having started the day the fountain pen started losing
Yusuf Mansoor giving final touches to his line of boutique FP cases in finest leather, fit to encase your treasured possessions! Every once in a while, life delivers one of those “unplayable” deliveries and all one can do, is look at the dishevelled stumps in disbelief, before walking back to
Fountain Pen Mart is here to address the needs of the fraternity, conceived and run by one of us. Sourav Roy is a journalist working in North Bengal’s leading publication. Hailing from Coochbehar, he is now based in Siliguri and is a keen fountain pen lover and user. Bitten by
The Estie Peacock – the plume is ready to be unfurled, are you ready for the magic? Esterbrook is a legacy name in the world of writing instruments. Established in 1858, Esterbrook, once synonymous with the spirit that is Americana, in its hay days was not only the largest pen
Evelina Hristozova of Tibaldi talks pens, pandemics and posterity… Evelina Hristozova is the spirit that is propelling the legacy brand Tibaldi as it reinvents itself, seeking to keep its date with eternity. With her deep understanding of the consumer’s psyche and the intricacies involved in transforming a brand into
Ohto pens are now in India, thanks to Tushar Vaghela I met Tushar Vaghela for the first time in the Ahmedabad Pen Show – fondly christened the Global Pen Expo – in the beginning of this year. Frankly speaking, I had reached the venue not expecting much, not having
“A word after a word after a word after a word is power” – Margaret Atwood Having been fascinated with fountain pens since childhood, there always was a longing for me to use fountain pens. At an office event, a wine tasting, I saw one of the judges from Germany,
Swadeshi, Swaraj and Swadhin – three new lines of ink from Sulekha are now ready. During the peak of Corona-infused-lockdown, fountain pen lovers from different parts of India had contacted me to help them organise a “group buy” of Sulekha Inks. To cut a long story short, despite my best
Pricing, pricing and pricing – the holy trinity of buying foreign fountain pens Pricing of imported fountain pens is a thorny issue at its best, a contentious one leading to massive heartburns at its worst. Buying from the swank, authorized retail outlets with liveried assistants, gives one the scare
Valuation and Certification services now available in India – Diwali comes early for Fountain Pen lovers. I always buy fountain pens – especially the old, vintage stuff of Indian origin – blindly. I know it is a path full of pitfalls, with dangers lurking in the corners and would never
