Peary Mohan Bagchi or P.M. Bagchi (1850 (?) -1917) was the son of Pran Gopal Bagchi, a “Bhanga-Kulin” Brahmin of the Kashyap-para locality in Shantipur of Nadia District of undivided Bengal. Peary Mohan was a treasurer at the Krishnanagar/ Kishnagar Rajbari (palace) during his initial working days. He had five
Ivano Ziggiotti was born in the province of Vicenza in 1962. By profession a craftsman, now retired, he approached calligraphy in 1996 when he enrolled in the Italian Calligraphic Association and attended numerous courses with teachers of high artistic value and high technical preparation, including Denis Brown, James Clough, Giovanni
In Flanders Fields, written by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, to be paid tribute to through a LE Onoto pen. World War I battlefields in Belgium and France are often called “Flanders Fields” in English. Red poppies, that grew wild on the graves of fallen soldiers, have since become one
Qalam – the symbol of wisdom, that emphasises on knowledge and education – from which flows the divine art of calligraphy “A solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time” is how the poet laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore had described the Taj Mahal. As a matter of fact, so much
Callithon 2021 to celebrate Calligraphy. Calligraphy. Some lovingly call it frozen poetry. Some refer to it as the art of preserving the moment even after the words extinguish themselves. Some have even gone to the extent of describing it as the dance of the pen on paper. Yet, the very
Kaweco Classic Sport, Maanjitender Sethi, picks up his favourite to write to the fraternity of fountain pen lovers! Hello! I am Kaweco Classic Sport Fountain Pen. My complexion is deep dark red, therefore I have been christened as ‘Bordeaux’ because my complexion reminds one of the finest wines of this
