A Pen-chant for the fountain pen of eternal blessings? “But wouldn’t the Earth be better off if you switched to using a stylus” asked the PYT in all seriousness when I tried to impress upon her to switch to a fountain pen the other day in my class. “Don’t you
A young man sits in Washington Square Park with a sign around his neck. With only a clipboard, a writing pad and a pen for company, his passion for words is an opening to incredible human connections. Sometimes all it takes to get people to drop their guard is a
Conklin Duraflex where the twain meets Mark Twain Conklin, to me, is synonymous with three things – a writing legacy that is now more than a hundred and twenty years old; the credit of creating the first self-filling fountain pen; and off-course, the legendary author Mark Twain, who endorsed the
Click, scripting the future befitting its glorious past, secure in the present Four decades. A period that witnessed the worst downturn in the global fountain pen industry – when demand vanished, with the young increasingly adopting the ball points as their preferred instrument of writing, and then, slowly replacing
Fountain Pen lovers of Mumbai and Pune meet – where nibs are tuned, lives turned! Take an airline pilot, an artist, a couple of lawyers, a splattering of management consultants, a teacher and a few others whose professions are as diverse as India’s unity. Put them in one of Mumbai’s
Fountain Pen lovers of the world unite … Okay. So, I vented my heart out. Pointed at all those things that I felt were wrong with the Indian Fountain Pen Industry. And, the responses that I got was overwhelming – though understandably, many did not wish to be named
Fountain pens for some – fountain of pains for others! Let’s face it – your children and my children don’t use the fountain pen. They don’t even write, preferring to key in the words. And nine out of the ten people who actually buy fountain pens in India do so
Bauhaus lines and minimalist appointments recall the pre-Montegrappa era and an unsung pioneer of penmaking Among the industrialists who joined to open Italy’s first fountain pen nib factory in 1912, Heinrich Helm’s influence has been by far the most enduring. A production technician by trade, the native Austrian’s duties in
Oscar Schindler (1908-1974). German industrialist. Opportunist businessman. War profiteer. Nazi party member. During the World War II he outwitted the Nazis to save more Jews (some put the number to above a thousand) from the gas chambers and certain death than anyone else. He did this by primarily employing them
Magna Carta. The Charter that establishes that everyone, including the King, is subject to the Law, that the rights to justice and the right to a fair trial are guaranteed – is one of the most important documents ever written in history. To create a line of writing accessories that
