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
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
Sudhir Kalyanikar, rides his hobby horse, shares vignettes about fountain pen collecting As I have spent some time in this hobby, I’ve realised a few things. For better or worse, sharing these here in the hope that others may identify with these and they may serve as a (kind
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
Dr Sovan Roy’s Magnum Opus to hit the stands soon! Dr Sovan Roy is a scientist by profession. And, a distinguished one at that, if one were to consider the sheer number of papers published in the professional journals or his long and blemish-less record as a Government servant occupying
Fountain Pen Groups – what ails them? What medicine do you prescribe? The caveat up front. I am only trying to raise an issue that afflicts all of us. There is no intention of pointing fingers at any one Fountain Pen Group or person in particular, leave alone a desire
Lotus participates in the Singapore Pen Show, sells out in record time. Arun Singhi of Lotus Pens has every reason to be proud. The pen turner from Mumbai, often called the “most gifted among all those who make hand made fountain pens in India”, had a déjà vu moment in
William Penn – combining convenience with great experience Nikhil Ranjan, the young and dynamic Managing Director of William Penn is credited with creating, almost single handed, the e-commerce space for fountain pens and all related accessories in India, that too with multiple brick and mortar stores across different cities. A prime
1st India Pen Show in Mumbai – Why I will attend, and you should too. We are different. We are fountain pen-abled. No, neither is this the “new normal” nor are we big enough as a class to be wooed politically, our numbers not significant enough to make electoral differences,
BENU Parrot, the unboxing! It is nothing like anything that you have seen before. And, at first glance, you will not be at fault if you were, like me, led to think “how can a writing instrument be so radically different from our expectations and still be so beautiful”? Those
Fountain Pens are making a huge comeback. Not only because people are sick of keying in their thoughts, missing the experience of putting pen on paper; but also because of the leisurely, old-world charm of using pens – embracing the experience of writing with a pen as a silent scream
Dr Sreekumar of Krishna Pens talks about pens, inks, nibs! If turning a fountain pen is an art, then grinding of the nib is certainly a fine art, one that is the exclusive domain of the masters. And Dr Sreekumar is certainly a master who can easily walk into any
