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Chennai Pen Show 2025 – a standing ovation!

chawm — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:25:55 +0000

The final of the ICC Champions Trophy was on 9th March 2025. And India was playing. Naturally, organisers and participants alike were a bit skeptical, fearing that cricket will keep the crowds glued to their sets at home, affecting footfall at the Chennai Pen Show. Not unjustified, considering that cricket is the national pastime, more

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Penspecials dot com – everything pen and special to boot!

chawm — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:57:41 +0000

Where do connoisseurs go to buy their fountain pens and inks and accessories? The question becomes even more important if you are new to the hobby, are discerning enough to be brand conscious, and at the same time do not wish to splurge by paying inordinately hefty sums for your purchases. In short, where should

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Brahmam, the ultimate reality

chawm — Sat, 28 May 2022 04:28:00 +0000

Brahmam fountain pens, to most collectors of India made vintage or antique pens, is but a mystery, wrapped in a riddle, inside an enigma, so difficult it is to come across good, working pieces. Naturally, their scarcity leads to the creation of newer fables around them as the scamper to acquire one heats up; the

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Franken pen – the Birth of a Duofold.

chawm — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:49:19 +0000

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 defining work of timelessness, we will

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Tamenuri from AP Limited Editions – the ecstasy of enlightenment

chawm — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 04:33:13 +0000

Tamenuri reaches its apogee in fountain pens created by AP Limited Editions – stark in their simplicity, numinous as the ultimate truth. Literally, the Japanese term “Kintsugi” translates to mean “golden joinery”. It is also, often, uttered as “Kintsukuroi”, which means “golden repairs”. On a very basic level, the art refers to the repairing of

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Dhar Brothers – the Atlantis of Calcutta’s Pen and Ink legacy

chawm — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:29:02 +0000

Dhar Brothers and the story of Calcutta’s brush with fountain pen making excellence – fact, fiction or folklore? Imagine that you are so well known for your skills that the Commissioner of Calcutta Police sends his prized fountain pen to you for some repair work. Mind you, this is a time when the fountain pen

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Yusuf Mansoor and the gift that made my day!

chawm — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:55:40 +0000

Yusuf Mansoor giving final touches to his line of boutique FP cases in finest leather, fit to encase your treasured possessions! Every once in a while, life delivers one of those “unplayable” deliveries and all one can do, is look at the dishevelled stumps in disbelief, before walking back to the pavilion. No big deal

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Tibaldi Perfecta – the classic, forever song!

chawm — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:16:45 +0000

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 stilts of the present. For,

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Pen World – the name says it all.

chawm — Wed, 20 May 2020 06:39:21 +0000

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 price points, fine papers, inks

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Dilip Doshi and Lamy – match-winners from both ends!

chawm — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:54:06 +0000

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 lanky man, who got what

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Lotus blooms in Singapore

chawm — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:54:47 +0000

Lotus participates in the Singapore Pen Show, sells out in record time. Arun Singhi of Lotus Pens has every reason to be proud. The pen turner from Mumbai, often called the “most gifted among all those who make hand made fountain pens in India”, had a déjà vu moment in Singapore earlier this month when

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Ratnam Son – for, the name is the fame!

chawm — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 15:45:27 +0000

K V Ratnam and Sons – the people behind the Swadeshi Pen! We have been inundated by messages since the story about Ratnam and Swadeshi pens was published. Most readers wanted to know about the House of Ratnam – primarily about their contribution to the world of fountain pens in general and to that of

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