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6th Inked Happiness Lifetime Achievement Award – curtain raiser.

The 6th Inked Happiness Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented in a solemn ceremony on Saturday, the 27th of July at the Vivekananda Hall of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata. The Award will be handed over by Swami Suviranandaji Maharaj, General Secretary of the Ramakrishna Math &

 

Dineshchandra Sircar and Isidore of Seville – Bibek Debroy

As is only to be expected, ink is older than pens, not to speak of fountain pens.  Across old civilizations, India, Egypt, China, Rome, ink was used, based on lamp-black and pigments with plant, animal and mineral origins.  The history of those experiments and innovations is often forgotten. Something like