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S Mordan & Co dip pens, anyone?

On April 25, 2021April 25, 2021 By chawm

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 in

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Gooptu and Perfection – two words that depict the best of two worlds – Swadeshi and the Raj.

On August 23, 2020August 26, 2020 By chawm

Gooptu. There is only one family that spells their surname with the double o’s. How or why the peculiar spelling was, and still is, resorted to, I do not know. But what I do know is that Dr Dwarka Nath Gooptu (1818 – 1882) was in the first batch of