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Nandini Ramchandran: Is a Woman Fountain Pen Lover / Collector an Oxymoron?

On December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 By chawm

Nandini Ramchandran on being a woman collector of fountain pens in a man’s world! As a fountain pen collector and user, who happens to be a woman, I am often asked why there are relatively fewer women pursuing the hobby in India. While I cannot presume to speak for

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Ohto, Tushar Vaghela and the Long-Short I am dying to lay my hands on

On November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 By chawm

Ohto pens are now in India, thanks to Tushar Vaghela I met Tushar Vaghela for the first time in the Ahmedabad Pen Show – fondly christened the Global Pen Expo – in the beginning of this year. Frankly speaking, I had reached the venue not expecting much, not having

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Sripal Jain, Makoba: Fountain pens, markets and the new normal

On October 21, 2020October 22, 2020 By chawm

Makoba feels that the best is yet to come, gets ready to reap the rewards on the other side of the pandemic Inked happiness: Before everything else, what does Makoba mean? How old is the ecommerce platform? What attracted you to the world of writing accessories? How has the journey

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Venvstas Future of Stationery Competition: Indian clinches Winner’s title

On September 18, 2020 By chawm

Venvstas winner is a pen that creates and stores Kinetic energy, burns the impression on paper! Venvstas is a lifestyle brand that was started by the vision of a designer. It was founded in Paris but is now based in Italy, where it also produces. Venvstas manufactures a line of

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Inked Happiness – a letter to the Editor

On July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 By chawm

Inked Happiness turning three is a matter of great happiness, but don’t digress. Dear Suvobrata, I learn that your blog, Inked Happiness will be celebrating the second completed year of its being shortly. Congratulations! I will not belittle your passion for the fountain pen with the customary platitudes that letters

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Kalem Kitabevi and the passion for the Fountain Pen: a Merhaba from Turkey

On June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 By chawm

My father Mehmet Kamil was a bibliophile of the staunchest kinds. The book was his window to the world – his speeches of freedom, his best friends, his life. Hailing from a middle-class family and growing up in Turkey, the road that was to lead him to fortune and fame

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Pen World – the name says it all.

On May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 By chawm

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

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

On May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 By chawm

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

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Leena Shrestha Menon, Pen Boutique and the future of the Fountain Pen

On April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 By chawm

Leena Shrestha Menon runs the Fountain Pen Oasis www.penboutique.com which is to the fountain pen community today, what Milan was to trade industry and commerce during the renaissance. A hard-core fountain pen fanatic, Leena is highly regarded not only by her customers and the brands that she represents, but also

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Pens, Pestilence and Penance for the Pendulous and the Pensive in Painful Penitentiary!

On March 29, 2020March 29, 2020 By chawm

These are trying times. Just when we were beginning to think that mankind has triumphed over the two biggest adversaries that has challenged its existence since the dawn of civilisation – war and pestilence, the world has been hit with a pandemic of such proportions that we have nothing in

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Things I’ve learned in the Fountain Pen Hobby : Sudhir Kalyanikar

On March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 By chawm

Sudhir Kalyanikar, rides his hobby horse, shares vignettes about fountain pen collecting As I have spent some time in this hobby, I’ve realised a few things. For better or worse, sharing these here in the hope that others may identify with these and they may serve as a (kind

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Dilip Basak the Meisterstück of fountain pen restoration

On February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 By chawm

Dilip Basak – meet the man with the Midas Touch Dilip Basak, the eldest of his four siblings was about eleven years old, when moved by his father’s struggle to run the family, he decided to drop out of school and help his father in his business as a pen