Chinese Fountain Pens – random thoughts about my latest crop Fountain pens made in China never cease to fascinate me. Not the way the solid engineering of German pens, or the fine excellence of Japanese pens or the pukka artistry of British pens, or even the handcrafted brilliance of Indian
Cross X Liberty United Collector’s Edition Gunmetal Gray Rollerball I abhor dot pens and gel pens and roller-ball pens. Lesser mortals all. Naturally, eulogising about them and their ilk is sacrilege, no less. But this one is different. This one is special. This one deserves a salute, even from a
Japanese Pens – delights to behold, wonders of craftsmanship. Legend has it that it was a friend returning from England, who first had shown a fountain pen to Kyugoro Sakata. Sakata was an engineer by profession and had immediately taken up the challenge of manufacturing fountain pens in Japan. The
Top 5 Contemporary Indian Fountain Pens – the search begins! The average pen lover who wants to possess an Indian pen is at a huge disadvantage. He / she does not know what to aim for, where to look for, or even how much to shell out for the unit.
Top 5 Contemporary Indian Fountain Pens – the search begins! The average pen lover who wants to possess an Indian pen is at a huge disadvantage. He / she does not know what to aim for, where to look for, or even how much to shell out for the unit.
1st India Pen Show in Mumbai – Why I will attend, and you should too. We are different. We are fountain pen-abled. No, neither is this the “new normal” nor are we big enough as a class to be wooed politically, our numbers not significant enough to make electoral differences,
A song well sung, Wing Sung I remember the year distinctly – 1982, for it was the year that Michel Jackson’s Thriller was released. It was also the year when I had got my first Wing Sung fountain pen. Mind you, there was nothing great about Wing Sung pens even
Is the Fountain Pen the best stress buster yet? Show me a person who is not suffering from unbearable stress and the resultant bouts of what is being fashionably termed as “lifestyle diseases” and I will show you a liar. For, whether you choose to agree or not, stress, death
Alex Semanin and Kate Dmitrieva, are making beautiful music together – music on fountain pens! Their creations – some call it a riot of colours, some a ode to the written word, some another name of creative excellence – are already a rage among the connoisseurs and pen pundits alike
The Supermarine Spitfire had a lower attrition rate and enjoyed a higher victory to loss ratio earning it a permanent place in the annals of air war. During the Battle of Britain (1940), they were engaged in the task of engaging Nazi Germany’s Messerschmitt Bf 109E series aircrafts conducting Luftwaffe
