Onoto’s newest fountain pen comes in its tribute edition celebrating literary figures. It has been made in honour of Natsume Soseki and his masterpiece, I Am a Cat. “Once he had taken up his pen (a quill pen inlaid with mother-of-pearl that he had brought home from England), he
Fountain Pen Shows in India – why have eggs when you can eat the golden goose? The fountain pen sellers of the Fort area in Mumbai are livid. Why is their livelihood being threatened by the sudden deluge of Fountain Pen shows? These are all ancestral businesses, small, mostly
Wilson Vacumatic, the pen that drafted our Constitution We are a forgetful, if not a downright ungrateful people. Unless, off-course it is politically expedient to remember things, in which case we even tend to remember things that did not occur. But that again is another point, lets get back
PFM – are you “Man” enough for it? The year was 1959. The years leading to it had seen a move by most US fountain pen manufacturers towards the slender, longish pens like what were popularly referred to as the TM or the Thin Model Pens. Sheaffer was battling
Dilip Basak – meet the man with the Midas Touch Dilip Basak, the eldest of his four siblings was about eleven years old, when moved by his father’s struggle to run the family, he decided to drop out of school and help his father in his business as a
Click Century Acrylic Fountain pens – redefining the priorities of the serious hobbyists! The hobby of fountain pen collecting, of writing with one, suffers from a huge problem – that of elitism. Most hobbyists, at some time or the other, are trapped into the vortex of brands, waylaid into
Sunil Pandya – helping keep the tradition of beautiful writing alive in Gujarat. Shubh Pandya is all of eight years. He studies in Class three in Vishaniketan CBSE School in Ahmedabad. Collects fountain pens and lists Calligraphy among his various interests. And when I met Shubh leading the delegation of
Urushi – the ancient Japanese lacquer art finds a home in India The fumes they emit are noxious. The material itself, highly allergic to the skin. And, it is known to test even the patience of monks. So much so, that even the art it embodies, pales into insignificance,
Global Pen Expo Ahmedabad – and quiet flows the Don! It was an emotional moment for Sunilbhai Kothari*. The three Sheaffer Fountain pens which his grandfather had used and had later bequeathed to his father, who in turn had passed on to him, were again writing in their pristine
Penmen creator Gary Blehm, pens his thoughts! A school kid in Colorado, United States, drew a cartoon figure with a big grin and declared his intention to draw cartoons for a living to his parents. The year was 1977. No big deal, you think, every other kid comes up
Global Pen Expo, Ahmedabad ready to set the standard for Pen Shows in India. Unprecedented. Unprecedented is the interest that has been generated by the Global Pen Expo, Ahmedabad 2020. And from the initial reports it is amply clear – the Ahmedabad show is ready to walk away with
Her beauty is a monument to human artistry; her discovery, a testament to human curiosity. Two centuries after her unearthing, the magnificent Venus de Milo is the centrepiece of a new work of Montegrappa Ultimate Craft. She is a gift from the past: a goddess carved from marble …for
