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The Chennai Pen Show 2026 – are you coming?

chawm — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:22:09 +0000

The Chennai Pen Show has quietly carved out a distinct niche for itself in the global calendar of events dedicated to pens, inks, accessories, and stationery items. I use the term “global” consciously, as Aditya Bhansali of Endless, the organisers of the show, says the Chennai Pen Show is the largest in the world, with

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6th Inked Happiness Lifetime Achievement Award – curtain raiser.

chawm — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:46:22 +0000

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 & Ramakrishna Mission. The recipient of

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Chennai Pen Show – a roundup!

chawm — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:54:27 +0000

We are just back from the 1st Chennai Pen Show which was organised by Aditya Bhansali and his team of super-efficient achievers. Well, the platitudes are deliberate – for here was a show that like a pack of trump cards, excelled on all counts. For the habitual nitpickers among us, I did look very hard,

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The 7th International Pen Festival, Pune is getting ready, are you?

chawm — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:22:36 +0000

The 7th International Pen Festival, Pune is getting ready, are you? The Pune Pen Show is fast approaching. Venus Traders, the one-stop destination for all things stationery in the city will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary, and what better way than to fire the crackers with a pen show, they thought. The result will be

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Satramdas Motwani – the man, the Beena, the Magic!

chawm — Fri, 06 May 2022 09:21:02 +0000

August Eberstein and Alfred Nehemias are names that are well known to fountain pen fanatics. The names Kyugoro Sakata and Walter A Sheaffer are also recognized instantly. And they should be, for they are the founders of Montblanc, Sailor and Sheaffer pens respectively, people who have created brands that have outlived them, making enormous contributions

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Pen Mahotsav – the Kolkata Pen Show is here

chawm — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 04:01:47 +0000

Pen Mahotsav – the first fountain pen show in the east is all set to set the high watermark, create the occasion penophiles were waiting for. Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune – after every pen show, we fountain pen lovers from the east vowed to hold the “mother of all pen shows” in Kolkata, had our coffee,

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Dineshchandra Sircar and Isidore of Seville – Bibek Debroy

chawm — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 04:13:23 +0000

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 D. C. Sircar’s work deserves

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Pricing of Imported Fountain Pens – Sripal Jain demystifies, rubbishes the myths!

chawm — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:22:12 +0000

Pricing, pricing and pricing – the holy trinity of buying foreign fountain pens Pricing of imported fountain pens is a thorny issue at its best, a contentious one leading to massive heartburns at its worst. Buying from the swank, authorized retail outlets with liveried assistants, gives one the scare – that the unnecessary costs

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MARK TWAIN, GRAHAM GREENE AND JAWAHARLAL NEHRU ON FOUNTAIN PENS: Bibek Debroy

chawm — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:43:31 +0000

Quotes from two famous authors illustrate how perceptions about the fountain pen changed. The first is Mark Twain (1835-1910). This famous quote is “None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.” This was part of Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar and featured in “Following the

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