Rabindra Nath Tagore – INKED HAPPINESS

Fountain Pen? Isn’t that a Jhorna Kolom?

chawm — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 13:03:42 +0000

Fountain Pens in different languages About fifteen percent of the world speaks in Mandarin – that is Chinese to us philistines from the wrong side of the Great Wall. And they call the Fountain Pen the “Gāngbǐ” (钢笔). By comparison, less than half of those putting their Gāngbǐ on paper, speak in English. Little wonder,

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Xu Zhimo, King’s College Cambridge and an exclusive range from Onoto

chawm — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 07:35:20 +0000

Rabindra Nath Tagore, Asia’s first Noble laureate had visited China thrice, twice living with a young Cambridge educated Chinese poet Xu Zhimo and his wife Lu Xiaoman. Xu Zhimo acted as the official translator of the bard and is known to have been, not only extremely close to the poet, but also deeply influenced by

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