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Fountain pen shows in India – why this Kolaveri di? (Part 2)

On March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 By chawm

Fountain Pen Shows in India – why have eggs when you can eat the golden goose? The fountain pen sellers of the Fort area in Mumbai are livid. Why is their livelihood being threatened by the sudden deluge of Fountain Pen shows? These are all ancestral businesses, small, mostly single

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Global Pen Expo @ Ahmedabad – Ellis Bridge over Inked waters!

On January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 By chawm

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

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Dr Sovan Roy rewrites the history of Fountain Pen making in India!

On November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 By chawm

Dr Sovan Roy’s Magnum Opus to hit the stands soon! Dr Sovan Roy is a scientist by profession. And, a distinguished one at that, if one were to consider the sheer number of papers published in the professional journals or his long and blemish-less record as a Government servant occupying

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AP Limited Editions – pens that make the twain meet!

On October 25, 2019October 25, 2019 By chawm

AP Limited Editions, where the pinnacle is another pen-peak. Inked Happiness: AP Limited Editions won the first coveted Pen of the Year Award in 2016, which is about a decade since you began your journey. How did you manage to achieve this near impossible feat, especially in view of the

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Onoto pens – where Oxford meets Cambridge in celebration of all things pucca!

On January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 By chawm

Onoto, Oxford and Cambridge, the quintessentially British search for excellence! Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest universities in the United Kingdom, according to popular lore, are bitterly pitted against each other – a rivalry, raconteurs add gleefully, that dates back centuries. Perhaps the fact that both were founded about 800