Raffaello 500th AnniversaryGenio Creativo Five centuries after his death, the genius of Raphael continues to dazzle the world. The tenth instalment in our esteemed Genio Creativo series is the most precious of all. Raphael’s astonishing vision is the subject of five very special creations: each a pronouncement of Italian virtuosity.
Inked Happiness: What is new, at Diplomat? Has the “Flame” really set the writing instruments market aflame the way you had imagined? How has MADC’s graffiti inspired creations been accepted by the community? Has the “Volute” given the brand the kind of stability that the Ionic capitals gave to Greek
Origin One goes Carbon Zero! The Writing pad is dead. As dead as a doornail. Killed by an overdose of digital domination and an increasing apathy of our young to pick up the fountain pen (or pencil, or whatever). Emails regularly come with ominous warnings about using paper, that lead
My father Mehmet Kamil was a bibliophile of the staunchest kinds. The book was his window to the world – his speeches of freedom, his best friends, his life. Hailing from a middle-class family and growing up in Turkey, the road that was to lead him to fortune and fame
A “Classic” is a forever song – an outstanding example of creativity, that defines its very genre. A Classic is also something that successive generations go back to, with an intention to interpret it with their sensibilities, freeze frame its timelessness as it were – to view eternity through the
An average Indian Fountain Pen (any pen for that matter) comprises of ten different parts: The Cap: Finial, Cap body & Lip, Clip, Insert (inner cap), Center band The Barrel: Body & Finial, Trim ring The Nib The Feed The Section The Converter Yes, I know that I am over
A new socio-economic order is all set to rise from the ashes of the lockdown and the coming era will be marked by the leadership of a fresh crop of leaders – princesses and princes who will seize the dawn. The good news is that the Sceptres that will accord
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
Transcendence and redemption A century of kinship continues. Montegrappa’s celebration of Ernest Hemingway’s life enters a new chapter. Behold the magic of Africa – a continent that entranced one of the 20thcentury’s most compelling figures – with Hemingway: The Adventurer. Few people have lived larger lives than Ernest Hemingway. His
The fountain pen lovers of Bangladesh have just unveiled their website. The hobby of pen collecting is not only alive and well on the other side of the border, but is actually throbbing with life. Inked happiness caught up with the aficionados from “Opar Bangla” and is delightfully stunned by
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
Fountain pen in hand, the first thing most people (some say as high as 97 percent) write is their name. The original “big four” of fountain pens in the USA were Conklin, Parker, Sheaffer and Waterman. Conklin was later nudged out of the list by Eversharp (Wahl Eversharp, if
