Meet Anil Thaman, the 64-year-old-youngster who has stunned the disbelievers by clinching the second space in the World handwriting Contest of 2021 organised by the reigning diva of dancing letters Kate Gladstone. As he puts it himself: “to be apart from home and family and move to a different country
Lamy 2000. Mention the name and I can go on yapping forever – Bauhaus, Makrolon, form-follows-function, German Engineering excellence, the height of writing pleasure … for, there is a strange bond that ties the Lamy 2000 to me. We were both born in 1966. And now Lamy has come out
Frank Limper is a Federalist in the real sense of the term – one who has set up a distinctive relationship of parity between two levels of Fountain Pen fanaticism, as a collector and a retailer; just like the federalist system does in terms of governance. Here he talks at
Inked Happiness turns four today. Like all birthdays, ours is a special one too, for it is on this day that we give away the Inked Happiness Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the world of writing, writing instruments and the writers who wield them. The 1st Award had
Saikat Ghosh, Swar Sadhaana and the art of taking Wality pens to the next level with custom fitted Kanwrite nibs! Strange is the world of fountain pens. Stranger still, is the world that is inhabited by fountain pen lovers. And I say this with all the fondness of one
William Penn is all set to usher in a new pen day, post pandemic. Scaling up to do what it does best – riding the crest. William Penn. The story is just a shade shorter than two-decades old. A story that is backed by some forty odd brands that
Anupam Goswami – fountain pen aficionado, an autodidact who is hand writing his way to a nirvana of a different kind! Anupam Goswami is a lead-acid battery manufacturer based in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, though there is no Tezaab but sheer Love dripping from his pen as he takes
Autographs of icons – faded ink on paper that reaches out across space and time, across generations, to create wabi sabi moments of ecstasy On a Sunday morning a few years ago, when the world was a better place, my father, Partha Roy and I, paid a visit to my uncle,
Gama Pens need no introduction, nor does the 95 year young Gem & Co. Prof K C Janardhan talks to the man at the helm, Pratap Kumar in an exclusive for Inked Happiness. Pratap Kumar, master pen turner and the third generation at the helm of Gama Pens in conversation
Death. Depression. Devastation. These are indeed difficult times. And I must commend the Inked Happiness for having not only broached the topic of depression, but for having, so eloquently at that, focussed on the light at the end of the tunnel. Let us accept that the first step towards victory
Gujarati Calligraphers Community uses the art to bring solace to a pandemic devastated population. The virus, representing all that is dark is back, determined to unleash devastation of an unprecedented scale, that too with renewed vigour and mutated to boot. As mankind grapples with its fate, death and despair staring
Callithon 2021 to celebrate Calligraphy. Calligraphy. Some lovingly call it frozen poetry. Some refer to it as the art of preserving the moment even after the words extinguish themselves. Some have even gone to the extent of describing it as the dance of the pen on paper. Yet, the very
