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Pen World – the name says it all.

On May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 By chawm

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

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Dilip Doshi and Lamy – match-winners from both ends!

On May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 By chawm

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

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Cute from V’Sign – not just for cute little hands

On May 2, 2020May 2, 2020 By chawm

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

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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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Virus bashing and the Fountain pen!

On April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 By chawm

Ink on your fingers is better than a mutating virus strain in your systems. Corona. I am sure that you hate the word as much as I do. Just imagine, we didn’t even know of its existence just a few months back and today it has successfully forced us indoors,

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Turing-Welchman Pen – a tribute from Conway Stewart

On April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 By chawm

Turing-Welchman Pen a tribute to the men who broke the Enigma-enciphered messages during WWII by Conway Stewart A limited edition of 211 pens to celebrate the achievement of Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman who created the Turing-Welchman Bombe machine used to break Enigma-enciphered messages during the Second World War. The

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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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Pen palliates Pain – fighting the lock-down, fountain pen in hand!

On March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 By chawm

The lock-down is dragging on relentlessly, testing our patience, challenging our sanity, forcing the mind to flirt with depression as we remain confined, compelled to follow a routine that is not of our making. Lives of fountain pen lovers around the world too are badly impacted as many of us

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Happy National Handwriting Day of USA. Time we Indians had our own?

On January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 By chawm

Prof K C Janardhan tells us on how best to celebrate the Handwriting Day. I would like to congratulate each one of you who celebrates the National Handwriting Day in United States of America and those who have been influenced by it across the globe. I am happy that it

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Global Pen Expo @ Ahmedabad – Ellis Bridge over Inked waters!

On January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 By chawm

Global Pen Expo – Gujarat’s first Pen Show promises a barrelful! The Year 2020 is going to be a good one for the fountain pen. For starters, fountain pen sales, which had hit the absolute rock-bottom just a few years back, is steadily showing an upward trend globally and India

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MadC celebrates her art on a Diplomat Fountain pen!

On January 1, 2020January 2, 2020 By chawm

Diplomat, MadC and a Happy New Year! What is the one gift that sways a pen lover’s heart? The answer is easy, a fountain pen. But if one were to buy himself a fountain pen to mark the arrival of the new year, what would one buy? Now, that answer

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David Oscarson: Ganesha in Guilloché!

On November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 By chawm

Ganesha, Guilloché and David Oscarson – a holy trinity of high art! Ganesha is the remover of obstacles, the Lord of intellect and wisdom, the patron of the arts and the sciences. The God of beginnings, He is invoked at the start of all rites and ceremonies. Guilloché is the