Author: chawm

I am a fountain pen fanatic. Collecting for close to three decades now. Write mostly about the pens that i have the pleasure of owning along with various issues related to inks, accessories and the wonderful hobby of collecting.

Click Pens urges all to test their writing skills, unveils handwriting Competition

Click, India’s most lover brand of writing instruments has unveiled a brand new initiative to encourage people to pick up their Fountain pens and fight the demons of these difficult times. The Competition which begins today will run through to the end of October providing an unique opportunity to anyone

 

The Blue Fountain pen of Sushil Koirala

I was about to leave for my higher studies abroad and had gone to the Late Sushil Koirala, my uncle, to seek his blessings. A man who had always accorded the highest amount of importance to education, he was naturally happy that I was going to seek knowledge and was

 

Pakeezah – Dr Sreekumar Neethu’s magnum opus storms the ink scene.

Pakeezah – the “pure of heart”, is all set to smash all box office records, again! “Aapke paon dekhe, bahut haseen hain. Inhein zameen par mat utariyega… maile ho jaayenge!” (saw your feet, they are beautiful. Don’t step down on Earth, else they will get sullied!) Honestly, these were the

 

Tsachi Mitsenmacher, Parker and John Holland – Holy Trinity of a fountainpen kind

His name is Itshak Mitsenmacher, He is a bundle of passionate energy at 69, married, with three children: Eden, Michael and Naama. Itshak Mitsenmacher is from Israel. But drop the name “Tsachi”, and members of the fountain pen fraternity will immediately stand up in reverence, for Itshak is better known

 

Fountain Pen & Ink – the Calcutta connection

Fountain pen & Ink – the story of Calcutta’s intricate connection with their development, especially in the first half of the twentieth century, is a fascinating one that demands to be told, again, to the lovers of fountain pens. Nearly a hundred years on, most sources are as dry as

 

Click Models L2 and 555 – collectors, are you listening?

Click Pens never ceases to amaze me. And I say this, after having been a user of Click fountain pens for close to four decades now. That in itself should be a cause for some kind of a celebration – some of my readers were not even born when my

 

Nikko Ebonite – rays of perfection from the land of the rising sun!

Nikko Ebonite – is often considered, in India at least, to be the best that there can be, as far as hand turned fountain pens go. Yoshiko Endo looks after the orders and logistics side of the business in Nikko Ebonite Manufacturing Company – which, with the motto “ebonize your

 

Bibek Debroy on fountain pens

Bibek Debroy is an economist and was educated in Ramakrishna Mission School, Narendrapur; Presidency College, Kolkata; Delhi School of Economics and Trinity College, Cambridge. Presently, he is Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) and President, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI).  He has worked in Presidency College, Kolkata (1979-83),