An average Indian Fountain Pen (any pen for that matter) comprises of ten different parts: The Cap: Finial, Cap body & Lip, Clip, Insert (inner cap), Center band The Barrel: Body & Finial, Trim ring The Nib The Feed The Section The Converter Yes, I know that I am over
A new socio-economic order is all set to rise from the ashes of the lockdown and the coming era will be marked by the leadership of a fresh crop of leaders – princesses and princes who will seize the dawn. The good news is that the Sceptres that will accord
Pen World – there is only one God in the world of niche lifestyle magazines that deal with writing instruments and Nicky Pessaroff is His prophet. For the last three decades, the Pen World has highlighted the finer nuances of writing, featuring everything pens – new and vintage at all
Transcendence and redemption A century of kinship continues. Montegrappa’s celebration of Ernest Hemingway’s life enters a new chapter. Behold the magic of Africa – a continent that entranced one of the 20thcentury’s most compelling figures – with Hemingway: The Adventurer. Few people have lived larger lives than Ernest Hemingway. His
The fountain pen lovers of Bangladesh have just unveiled their website. The hobby of pen collecting is not only alive and well on the other side of the border, but is actually throbbing with life. Inked happiness caught up with the aficionados from “Opar Bangla” and is delightfully stunned by
Dilip Doshi. The very name conjures staccato black and white images of a packed Eden Gardens, men in flannels battling it out against the visitors, with the tricolour fluttering far away in time, as if, on the giant screen of a cinema hall from a lost era. Images of a
Fountain pen in hand, the first thing most people (some say as high as 97 percent) write is their name. The original “big four” of fountain pens in the USA were Conklin, Parker, Sheaffer and Waterman. Conklin was later nudged out of the list by Eversharp (Wahl Eversharp, if
The search for an “all-terrain” fountain pen made in India, by Indians, for Indians, and priced reasonably enough to attract Indian buyers, has been a long and arduous one, with very little hope of resolution. The hand turned Ebonite or Resin pens with imported feed, nib, cartridge and / or converters are
Samit Dutta’s grandfather the late Anil Kurmar Dutta was a fountain pen aficionado and had many pens in his collection. He would rotate them for his daily use and though the young Samit was hugely loved by his grandfather, access to the pens were a strict no-no. Mind you, those
Leena Shrestha Menon runs the Fountain Pen Oasis www.penboutique.com which is to the fountain pen community today, what Milan was to trade industry and commerce during the renaissance. A hard-core fountain pen fanatic, Leena is highly regarded not only by her customers and the brands that she represents, but also
All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts, – As You Like it, Act 2, Scene 7, William Shakespeare The world’s greatest writer, William Shakespeare, was born in England, in April 1564,
Tibaldi reinvents itself, ready to take on the future, adorn the hands that will shape tomorrow, accessorise the Generation Next. These are incredibly dark days and we all know just how terrible it feels to be lonely, with no outlet except the social media. One is locked-in, depressed and scared
