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Dr. Sovan Roy, Dr. Radhika Nath Saha, and the first Fountain Pens Made in India

chawm — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 04:53:36 +0000

Dr. Sovan Roy is a scientist. He is also a much-published author, whose works command a kind of respect in the scientific community that is beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals like us. Then why with the mere dropping of his name, does the kind of reverential silence descend, that they do? Because of his

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Fountain pen brothers from different mothers

chawm — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:14:02 +0000

There are broadly four kinds of people who buy fountain pens. I know that I am about to commit an unpardonable sin by writing what I have set out to write in this piece, for I will be generalising things to a point where it will be rankling at the least to some, but what

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The Montblanc Generation

chawm — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 10:58:19 +0000

The Montblanc, to the ordinary pen lover, is near synonymous with the 149 Meisterstück – black, larger-than-life, with a filling system that reflects the unending quest for perfection, nibs that define penmanship, with the snow-capped peak of the Montblanc mnemonic capping it all. It will not be an exaggeration to say that to innumerable fountain

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Muhammad Ilyas Khan talks about his lifelong passion for the fountain pen and about the fountainpen loving community in neighbouring Pakistan

chawm — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:46:07 +0000

I am Muhammad Ilyas Khan. I belong to Southern part of Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa province (Distt. Lakki Marwat). I am a retired bureaucrat and am now settled in Pak Capital – Islamabad. I speak, read and write in more than seven languages including English, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Dari and Pashto. I was a “pharako” boy

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Soumitra Sanyal – Cheers to the Vintage Indian!

chawm — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:03:04 +0000

The exact aetiology that makes OCD (of which we all “collectors” suffer in varying degrees) flower is, shall we say, not fully understood, as yet. Some experts postulate that we bear the condition in our genes, though what triggers the “mutation” (if that is the right term), is not clear. While it is normal for

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Turing-Welchman Pen – a tribute from Conway Stewart

chawm — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 06:23:32 +0000

Turing-Welchman Pen a tribute to the men who broke the Enigma-enciphered messages during WWII by Conway Stewart A limited edition of 211 pens to celebrate the achievement of Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman who created the Turing-Welchman Bombe machine used to break Enigma-enciphered messages during the Second World War. The Code-breakers Alan Turing and Gordon

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Delicious Inks from 3 Oysters, Korea

chawm — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 03:38:59 +0000

3 Oysters – an inky 3 cheers (with a thank you to Pen Specials) When I was a kid and writing with fountain pens was de rigueur (mainstream, as opposed to being restricted to a passionate lunatic fringe), ink options were pretty limited – Royal Blue or Blue Black for school. That too, only from

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