Firingi Kali. The naming itself is hatke, different. The Bengali word Firingi, can be traced back etymologically to old French, through Persian, Urdu and Hindi, where it denotes a foreigner, especially a British or a white person. Kali, in typical Bengali means ink, though phonetically it can also be construed
Brick & Mortar store supporters advance five reasons in their support, still fountain pen lovers are increasingly buying online, why? Time, we went Click & Collect? I am a compulsive pen, ink and stationery buyer. I buy fountain pens when I am happy. I buy fountain pens when I
William Penn is all set to usher in a new pen day, post pandemic. Scaling up to do what it does best – riding the crest. William Penn. The story is just a shade shorter than two-decades old. A story that is backed by some forty odd brands that
Pen Boutique, Leena Shrestha Menon and a story from the World Wide Web’s favourite pen, paper and ink store! Inked Happiness: What’s new at our favourite store – Pen Boutique? Leena Shrestha Menon, Pen Boutique: Now that the pandemic is winding down and restrictions are lifting, our store hours are
Anupam Goswami – fountain pen aficionado, an autodidact who is hand writing his way to a nirvana of a different kind! Anupam Goswami is a lead-acid battery manufacturer based in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, though there is no Tezaab but sheer Love dripping from his pen as he takes
As is only to be expected, ink is older than pens, not to speak of fountain pens. Across old civilizations, India, Egypt, China, Rome, ink was used, based on lamp-black and pigments with plant, animal and mineral origins. The history of those experiments and innovations is often forgotten. Something like
Aditya Bhansali is the best thing that has happened to the Indian fountain pen, ink, paper and accessories community in a really long time. And I have reasons to make the tall claim – however outrageous it may seem on the face of it. I will not mince my words
Death. Depression. Devastation. These are indeed difficult times. And I must commend the Inked Happiness for having not only broached the topic of depression, but for having, so eloquently at that, focussed on the light at the end of the tunnel. Let us accept that the first step towards victory
Depression pulling you down? Here take our hands, let us write our way out to victory with fountain pens and ink! These are difficult times and in the last many months, most of us have suffered: some, in ways we couldn’t even have contemplated in our wildest nightmares. If one
KANWRITE LEGACY is a much-awaited pen from the house of Kanwrite. Legacy series is Kanwrite’s first offering in machined pens category. Legacy series has been launched recently in three materials ebonite, acrylic and celluloid in limited colour options. Ice blue in celluloid is the best-looking pen of the lot. It
If Ink be the food of Love buy on, says Nandini Ramchandran, her tongue firmly in cheek. A lot of us went a little crazy in 2020. Some went bananas baking bread, others stirred up buckets of Dalgona Coffee. I went on a crazy online pen and ink shopping spree
Ayush Paper – fountain pen and pocket friendly for you to keep writing We fountain pen fanatics are a simple lot – all we need is a pen, a bottle of ink and some paper to write on. Well, at least to begin with. After that it is multiplied many
