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The dangers before the fountain pen and ink industry in India in the times of AI-led disruption

chawm — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:05:46 +0000

First, it was the deluge of use-and-throw ballpoint pens. Then came the digital devices that shook the very foundations of handwriting. And now with AI, the world of fountain pens, inks, and writing is facing a threat that is nothing short of existential. This, when the industry was just about cobbling a response to the

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Delmoon Steampunk is here – prepare to be bowled over.

chawm — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:25:03 +0000

Steampunk is retro-futuristic and anachronistic tech-based aesthetics, drawing deeply on steam-powered elements of the 19th century – of the Victorian era, of the Wild West – which had begun as a subgenre of science fiction. Though the term Steampunk was coined by science fiction author K W Jeter as late as 1987, there remains a

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Jinhao 159 – quality that is near unbeatable at a price that is simply too attractive.

chawm — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:19:55 +0000

Jinhao 159. I am personally not fond of the pen. But it still warrants to be celebrated for what it is – an excellent writing instrument! The Jinhao 159 is like a childhood crush – everyone has one, but very few are willing to admit it in public, leave alone showing it off as a

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Football’s dream eleven and Fountain Pen’s All Time Greats! – Apalak Bhattacharyya

chawm — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:26:21 +0000

Football, despite its universal appeal and immersive magic, has, by snobbish and opinionated casual commentators, never been seen as an academic pursuit. They somehow overlook the fact that intellectuals and creators like Pasolini, Gramsci, Camus and Galeano have thought about the game at length. There are thousands of books that talk about politics, history, philosophy,

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Tibaldi Perfecta – the classic, forever song!

chawm — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:16:45 +0000

A “Classic” is a forever song – an outstanding example of creativity, that defines its very genre. A Classic is also something that successive generations go back to, with an intention to interpret it with their sensibilities, freeze frame its timelessness as it were – to view eternity through the stilts of the present. For,

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Cute from V’Sign – not just for cute little hands

chawm — Sat, 02 May 2020 11:52:02 +0000

The search for an “all-terrain” fountain pen made in India, by Indians, for Indians, and priced reasonably enough to attract Indian buyers, has been a long and arduous one, with very little hope of resolution. The hand turned Ebonite or Resin pens with imported feed, nib, cartridge and / or converters are neither strictly Indian, nor priced

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Dilip Basak the Meisterstück of fountain pen restoration

chawm — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:02:06 +0000

Dilip Basak – meet the man with the Midas Touch Dilip Basak, the eldest of his four siblings was about eleven years old, when moved by his father’s struggle to run the family, he decided to drop out of school and help his father in his business as a pen mender, a mechanic. That was

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Why do pen collectors fail?

chawm — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 02:56:05 +0000

Pen Collectors of the world unite – you have nothing to lose but your apathy and a whole new ink to win! The world is full of married men? Nah, if the world is full of anything, it is a strange species called the failed pen collector. Failed, as in beyond all hopes of redemption,

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Unboxing the Opus 88 Fantasia

chawm — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 14:18:44 +0000

For the uninitiated, the name Michael Hsu is not one that will ring a bell. But read on, for he is one who has, over the last three decades, almost single handed put a Nation on the global map of fine writing instruments. Yes, we are talking of Taiwan and, you guessed it, and about

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