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Pelikan Hub Rajarhat 2025

chawm — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:53:13 +0000

254 Hub cities in 47 countries had hosted the Pelikan Hub in 2024. And this year, conventional logic says, it would have surpassed the number. Even on conservative estimates, it is huge, considering the facts that they are fountain pen, ink, and paper aficionado “meets” that are mostly organised by local hobbyists, and that Pelikan

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6th Inked Happiness Lifetime Achievement Award

chawm — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:54:40 +0000

Backgrounder The 6th Inked Happiness Lifetime Achievement Award was bestowed upon Dr Bibek Debroy on July 27th 2024 in a ceremony befitting the occasion in the Vivekananda Hall of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark. Swami Suviranandaji Maharaj handed over the Award in the presence of Swami Suparnanandaji Maharaj, Kaushik Maitra the Managing Director

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Pelikan Hub Rajarhat

chawm — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:25:49 +0000

The Pelikan Hub is a wonderful initiative. Imagine, fountain pen, ink, and stationery lovers coming together in their respective cities around the world, simultaneously, to celebrate their passion for the pen. Imagine Pelikan sending gifts for all those who go through the process and register to attend the event, no questions asked, shedding no tears

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Kalams of Kolkata – Sudhin Pal and fountain pens that are cheaper than anything that the Chinese can throw at us!

chawm — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:26:23 +0000

India-made pens. They fascinate me, for they are my reigning passion, the one end that justifies all means. I have spent so many decades of my life in their search – seeking them out, collecting them, getting the old dilapidated ones restored, compiling their stories, learning about their legacies, and more than anything else, writing

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Fountain Pen FAQs – points to ponder.

chawm — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 04:44:39 +0000

Well, let me begin this one with a confession – I am not an expert. I do not have any academic qualification to make such claims, nor do I have the inclination of being a self-styled one, someone who acts like a know-it-all, foot firmly in the mouth. Collecting fountain pens, and related writing accessories,

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Dilip Basak – love him or hate him, you cannot ignore him.

chawm — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:12:41 +0000

Dilip Basak. Some love him, recalling with happiness how he has brought pens – often that belonged to ancestors – back to life. While on the other end of the spectrum are the ones who hate him and their argument is also compelling, to say the least. “The man is obnoxious,” they say, adding that

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Depression decimator – the Fountain Pen in a new Avatar!

chawm — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 05:44:16 +0000

Depression pulling you down? Here take our hands, let us write our way out to victory with fountain pens and ink! These are difficult times and in the last many months, most of us have suffered: some, in ways we couldn’t even have contemplated in our wildest nightmares. If one closes one’s eyes and dwells

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Global Pen Expo @ Ahmedabad – Ellis Bridge over Inked waters!

chawm — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 02:05:45 +0000

Global Pen Expo – Gujarat’s first Pen Show promises a barrelful! The Year 2020 is going to be a good one for the fountain pen. For starters, fountain pen sales, which had hit the absolute rock-bottom just a few years back, is steadily showing an upward trend globally and India is no exception. Young adults,

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Hitesh Dodeja: Vector-e-Awadh-e-Hind!

chawm — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:54:49 +0000

Hitesh Dodeja: of Parker Vectors and the art of gifting a-la Awadh! I have been collecting fountain pens for more than three decades now. And like all collectors I need just an excuse to rattle off even the most insignificant details about my pens – where they were acquired, the stories behind their origins, how

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Dr Sovan Roy rewrites the history of Fountain Pen making in India!

chawm — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:36:34 +0000

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 progressively higher posts. But, it

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Hari Balakrishna : Fountain Pens and the art of collecting

chawm — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 07:20:27 +0000

Hari Balakrishna on Fountain pen collecting Hari Balakrishna is one of the foremost authorities on India made fountain pens. An penthusiast who has carefully nurtured his all consuming love for everything fountain over the last three decades, painstakingly creating, in the process a collection that is unmatched both in quality and variety, he remains an enigma

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Penultimate Dave on the ultimate joys of Collecting Fountain Pens

chawm — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:22:39 +0000

Meet Dave – the person behind the name Penultimate Dave. Dave has a collection of fountain pens and inks that he has acquired over many years, many of which people would call “grail pens” and reviews the fountain pens in his collection both by posting daily photos on his Instagram channel http://instagram.com/penultimatedave and video reviews

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