Have you ever thought of turning old, used tiny stubs of pencils into a plant? You might not have heard about this, but one would definitely start loving this concept once used to recycled pencils. Every year we cut down about 8 million trees to make around 2 billion pencils. In such times, sustainable pencils…
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Swadeshi, Swaraj and Swadhin – three new lines of ink from Sulekha are now ready. During the peak of Corona-infused-lockdown, fountain pen lovers from different parts of India had contacted me to help them organise a “group buy” of Sulekha Inks. To cut a long story short, despite my best efforts, the initiative had failed…
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A Doctor, a daughter and a fountain pen (sorry, many fountain pens) The joy of touching a pen to paper is, in my humble opinion, a sorely underappreciated one. Every drop of ink holds the power to change the world – or someone’s world, at the very least. I was introduced to this joy at…
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Dear Fellow Fountain Pen and Ink Lovers, We have worked out an exclusive deal for you to usher in the new year! All our readers will get a 19 percent discount on all items in www.penspecials.com. If you are a reader of www.inkedhappiness.com or are a member of www.penloverskolkata.com, all you have to do is…
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Suvobrata Ganguly introduces the readers of Young Metro, The Telegraph to the fascinating world of fountain pens – vintages, antiques and fountain pen restoration.
Dr Sovan Roy’s Magnum Opus to hit the stands soon! Dr Sovan Roy is a scientist by profession. And, a distinguished one at that, if one were to consider the sheer number of papers published in the professional journals or his long and blemish-less record as a Government servant occupying progressively higher posts. But, it…
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Yusuf Mansoor, eminent collector, historian and restorer of fountain pens has been tirelessly working for the last many years towards inculcating the habit of writing with fountain pens, especially in the young. “It is a legacy that I want to bequeath” says Mansoor, “a legacy of fine writing, of appreciating the instruments that our forefathers…
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