Jamini Roy line of inks – a one of its kind tribute to the master and his art is being created by Sulekha. The yearning to reflect the voice of the people, to discover the “idiom of its own” has been a constant struggle for Sulekha, since its inception
Click is routinely referred to as one of India’s top fountain pen manufacturers by the experts – and there are solid reasons behind the same. The legacy of the brand is beyond question, as is the commitment of Harsh Gagwani, the third generation from the family heading Click. The
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
Prof K C Janardhan, the Maestro, has been waging a relentless campaign to ensure the popularity of handwriting, lettering and calligraphy and through these art forms, encourage people, especially our young ones to take up the fountain pen and ink. “The fountain pen, with its negligible carbon footprint is
I am Muhammad Ilyas Khan. I belong to Southern part of Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa province (Distt. Lakki Marwat). I am a retired bureaucrat and am now settled in Pak Capital – Islamabad. I speak, read and write in more than seven languages including English, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Dari
Ivano Ziggiotti was born in the province of Vicenza in 1962. By profession a craftsman, now retired, he approached calligraphy in 1996 when he enrolled in the Italian Calligraphic Association and attended numerous courses with teachers of high artistic value and high technical preparation, including Denis Brown, James Clough,
Pen Mahotsav – the first fountain pen show in the east is all set to set the high watermark, create the occasion penophiles were waiting for. Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune – after every pen show, we fountain pen lovers from the east vowed to hold the “mother of all pen
The Superite fountain pen is an enigma of sorts. For starters, there is so little information in the public domain about the brand or the pens they made. Surprising, a pity even, considering the fact that the fountain pens in question were of excellent quality, and their vintage is
John Culmer has been repairing and restoring fountain pens for over thirty years, having acquired the skill from his father Charlie. John’s skill is such that his services are recommended by Parker and Waterman. Today, although the Peel Pen Shop (London) retail store location has now closed, John still
Croxley Pens from Dickinson – as pucca as a sahib can be, stiff upper lip, understated elegance et all. British fountainpens do not, in general, stir the kind of excitement in stylophiles that German, Italian or even Japanese pens do. A pity, actually, considering the glorious legacy that British
Click President – the answer to all pen lover’s prayers for an affordable piston filler, Made in India from scratch, is here! A piston filler, simply put, is a fountain pen with a knob at the bottom that is twisted to fill the barrel with ink. The first piston
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly had written Frankenstein, or, The Modern Promethius (published 1818) in a summer spent in Switzerland. She would later go on to describe that period in her life as the moment, “when I first stepped out from childhood into life”. While Frankenstein continues to remain, a genre
