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AURORA TO CELEBRATE THE ACT OF WRITING 23 JANUARY 2021 – HANDWRITING DAY

On January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 By chawm

The international handwriting day, sponsored by WIMA (the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association), is celebrated every 23 January and represents an opportunity to honour a passion that unites more and more people who consider the act of writing as a way to express their innermost thoughts and feelings. Aurora, an industry-leading

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Maanjitender Sethi a Pen meet and the spirit of giving

On December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 By chawm

Maanjitender Sethi setting up a precedent for others to follow. It all began with a mail: Good Morning Mr Ganguly, I have a few fountain pens which I don’t use and want to give them away. They are very low-cost pens. Honestly, I have not been able to find out

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Of Pens and Other Collections -Indranil Banerjie

On December 27, 2020December 28, 2020 By chawm

How the pen box has brought together my two passions in life – writing and woodworking. A few months ago, I rediscovered an old fountain pen, a long-forgotten companion from my college days. It was a cheap Parker with a plastic body, hidden in the midst of a drawer full

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Use the time constructively: I am working on the draft of my next book – Dr Sovan Roy

On April 4, 2020April 4, 2020 By chawm

Dr Sovan Roy, Scientist by profession and fountain pen lover by passion, author of the seminal work “Radhika Nath Saha – Unsung Hero of Indian Fountain pen” talks to Inked happiness about the virus, the lock-down it has forced on us and spells out ways in which the fountain pen

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Dilip Basak the Meisterstück of fountain pen restoration

On February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 By chawm

Dilip Basak – meet the man with the Midas Touch Dilip Basak, the eldest of his four siblings was about eleven years old, when moved by his father’s struggle to run the family, he decided to drop out of school and help his father in his business as a pen

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Click Century Acrylic Fountain Pens – Garv Se Kaho

On February 19, 2020February 20, 2020 By chawm

Click Century Acrylic Fountain pens – redefining the priorities of the serious hobbyists! The hobby of fountain pen collecting, of writing with one, suffers from a huge problem – that of elitism. Most hobbyists, at some time or the other, are trapped into the vortex of brands, waylaid into pursuing