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Callithon 2021 the biggest annual Calligraphy event is all set to surpass its earlier avatar.

On February 22, 2021 By chawm

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

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Maestro and his High Watermarks await to be surpassed.

On January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 By chawm

Maestro’s Indelible Ink Marks! Calling a Sitar virtuoso, a “maestro” we can understand. A cricketer, perhaps more so. But a professional calligrapher? Can someone, who has spent most of his adult life single-mindedly pursuing the art of writing with his hand and in the process has undoubtedly become one of

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Fountain Pen Mart – of, by and for the Fountain Pen Lovers

On December 1, 2020 By chawm

Fountain Pen Mart is here to address the needs of the fraternity, conceived and run by one of us. Sourav Roy is a journalist working in North Bengal’s leading publication. Hailing from Coochbehar, he is now based in Siliguri and is a keen fountain pen lover and user. Bitten by

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Valuation and Certification of Fountain Pens

On November 8, 2020November 12, 2020 By chawm

Valuation and Certification services now available in India – Diwali comes early for Fountain Pen lovers. I always buy fountain pens – especially the old, vintage stuff of Indian origin – blindly. I know it is a path full of pitfalls, with dangers lurking in the corners and would never

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Luxmi – the first commercially produced Indian Fountain Pen

On July 24, 2020July 26, 2020 By chawm

Luxmi Stylo Pen Works, Varanasi, was the first to make the “Swadeshi” pen in India. Legend has it that the first “Swadeshi” Fountain pen in India was made by Kosuri Venkata Ratnam to honour the desire expressed by none other than the Mahatma – who wanted an inexpensive pen, made

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Fountain Pen: after the deluge, what?

On April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 By chawm

Wars and famines. The fountain pen has witnessed pestilence in the past, just the way it has seen – from the trenches, the two World Wars. An estimated 20,00,000 people died in Leningrad – a direct fallout of the nine-hundred-day blockade by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944. The Bengal