Click Century Acrylic Fountain pens – redefining the priorities of the serious hobbyists! The hobby of fountain pen collecting, of writing with one, suffers from a huge problem – that of elitism. Most hobbyists, at some time or the other, are trapped into the vortex of brands, waylaid into pursuing
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
Manoj Deshmukh makes the perfect storm for me! The Parker Duofold, many aficionados opine, is the ultimate icon. With its girth and height, its bright red-orange exterior and stunning looks, it must have been quite a rage when it was introduced for the first time in 1921. Priced pretty steeply
Pelikan Hubs Day Celebrated in Kolkata September 20th is a special day in any pen lover’s calendar, for this date is celebrated as the Pelikan Hubs Day around the world. In 2018, the special day was celebrated in as many as 181 cities, spread across 46 countries as almost 5000
Leena Shrestha-Menon, Pen Boutique: spreading joy, one fountain pen at a time. Leena Shrestha-Menon of Pen Boutique – the lady who is giving empathy a fab new meaning with her fountain pens in an exclusive tête-à-tête with www.inkedhappiness.com: Q1. Buy a pen in the US to help a disabled child
The Holy Trinity – Prof Yashwant Pitkar, Yusuf Mansoor and BESC makes the fountain pen the common cause What can a professional architect have in common with a marine geologist that would attract students by the droves to hear them speak, that too on a holiday? Prof Dilip Shah, the
Fountain Pen Addiction? Here, take some Ink! I am an addict and my dope is fountain pens. I talk to Montblancs. I caress Benus. I whisper complements to Soenneckens. I raise toasts to Swans. My days are obsessively, compulsively, disorderly strung around fountain pens and at night, I either have
Pen Collectors of the world unite – you have nothing to lose but your apathy and a whole new ink to win! The world is full of married men? Nah, if the world is full of anything, it is a strange species called the failed pen collector. Failed, as in
Kolkata celebrates PelikanHubs, 2018 Ask any average quizzer what is special about the date September 21st and chances are that the answer will refer to the year 1792 when the National Convention had declared France a Republic by abolishing the absolute monarchy. Some may even mention the year 1949, when
Is the Fountain Pen the best stress buster yet? Show me a person who is not suffering from unbearable stress and the resultant bouts of what is being fashionably termed as “lifestyle diseases” and I will show you a liar. For, whether you choose to agree or not, stress, death
I am a Pen Widow. Yes, I lost my husband to a fountain pen. Many fountain pens to be precise. But I guess, the numbers do not really matter – for if, losing one’s love is bad enough, losing it to an inanimate object with a belly-full of ink and a
