Click Pens – a million smiles and counting. I was contacted by a certain Management School that wanted to take up the story of Click Fountain Pens as a Case Study for their graduate class. The expert (no, he does not want to be named) who contacted me
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
Talismans are objects, charms with magical powers that typically ward off evil and bring good luck. While talismans have been popular down the ages, the raging pandemic that has forced the world on to its knees has brought the talismans back into reckoning with many seeking their protective presence.
At its peak the Quartz Crisis reduced the number of Swiss watchmakers from 1600 to 600, and enabled Japan take over the lead in watchmaking – Clayton Christenson’s “The Innovator’s Dilemma” was playing out a full 20 years before its publication. Both in the crisis and their subsequent recovery,
Write your way out, a-la Shakespeare or Camus, to create for eternity. For the dawn will certainly break. Shakespeare was apparently quarantined when he had written “King Lear”. I have no way of knowing for certain whether he was ever quarantined in the real sense of the term as
Ebonite fountain pens made in the India of yore: master pieces of another kind, antique but neither anachronistic nor antediluvian This is not some missive about the fantastic eye candies that our brothers dangle before our eyes in the social media. This is also not a treatise on “Our
An Appeal to the fountain pen community to come together in this moment of grief and extend our support to humanity. The loss of near and dear ones is always heart wrenching. The voids they leave behind can never be filled. Sorrow that becomes numbing when it is
S Mordan & Co – the story of a sterling dip pen in Calcutta. The Dip Pen, also called the nib pen, was the predecessor of our fountainpens. Dip pens, in their turn, had started becoming popular in the early 19th century when they had replaced the quills and
Gujarati Calligraphers Community uses the art to bring solace to a pandemic devastated population. The virus, representing all that is dark is back, determined to unleash devastation of an unprecedented scale, that too with renewed vigour and mutated to boot. As mankind grapples with its fate, death and despair
Aurora celebrates Mother’s Day with a series of creations designed especially for women. Optima 365, Caleidoscopio Luce Rosa and Tu in the rose gold version will impress the most important woman in everyone’s life, with a gift that is original and precious, just like her. Class and elegance,
Dr Sougata Halder writes a witty and informative travelogue – Panchmishali Africa launched. We all have childhood dreams we cherish. As we leave childhood behind, the rigours of adult life teach us how ephemeral most of these dreams are. I have observed a childhood dream come true at very
Nino Marino – an Inked Happiness Exclusive Inked Happiness: From the pyre of Delta, Maiora has come out purer – like gold. How has the journey been so far? Nino Marino: Maiora was founded on January 28, 2018, after the closing of my beloved Delta, which took place
