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Why should the use of fountain pens be encouraged in today’s schools? -Adarsh V. Lakshman

On November 13, 2022 By chawm

Handwriting is an art that is slowly being lost to keyboards, and we must do our bit to preserve it. Handwriting and note-taking is said to have many benefits, especially for students, like activating the brain, reinforcing literary development, and improving memory among many others. There is arguably no better

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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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The Practice of Penning, the Art of Journaling: Souradeep Roy

On November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 By chawm

“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,

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Leena Shrestha Menon, Pen Boutique and the future of the Fountain Pen

On April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 By chawm

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

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Sulekha sings the freedom song, again!

On April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 By chawm

Sulekha starts producing Hand Sanitizers and Liquid Soap, joins the fight against Covid-19 In response to the call of the Government of India and Government of West Bengal, Sulekha has taken up the manufacturing of Hand Sanitizer and Liquid Soap. Necessary Drug License for Sanitizer production has already been obtained from

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Fountain Pen: after the deluge, what?

On April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 By chawm

Wars and famines. The fountain pen has witnessed pestilence in the past, just the way it has seen – from the trenches, the two World Wars. An estimated 20,00,000 people died in Leningrad – a direct fallout of the nine-hundred-day blockade by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944. The Bengal

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Pens, Pestilence and Penance for the Pendulous and the Pensive in Painful Penitentiary!

On March 29, 2020March 29, 2020 By chawm

These are trying times. Just when we were beginning to think that mankind has triumphed over the two biggest adversaries that has challenged its existence since the dawn of civilisation – war and pestilence, the world has been hit with a pandemic of such proportions that we have nothing in