Love for Fountain Pens – My story! As I was walking through the corridor of The Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC), I heard someone talking about fountain pens. With exams in mind and books in hand, I chose to ignore the conversation and simply continue with my work. How much I wish I had paid…
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 Inked Happiness turns four today. Like all birthdays, ours is a special one too, for it is on this day that we give away the Inked Happiness Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the world of writing, writing instruments and the writers who wield them. The 1st Award had gone to Yusuf Mansoor – collector, restorer and…
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  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…
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 (Re)Opening our doors Amidst the pandemic we saw eager eyes browsing, exploring and picking up fountain pens. Fountain pens, rollerballs, ballpoints and notebooks in a digitally obsessed time? Hmmm… What sparked this overwhelming interest in fine writing instruments? Maybe, just maybe, it reminded us of simpler times. Times when we relied on the skill of…
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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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 Click, India’s most lover brand of writing instruments has unveiled a brand new initiative to encourage people to pick up their Fountain pens and fight the demons of these difficult times. The Competition which begins today will run through to the end of October providing an unique opportunity to anyone who wishes to participate. There…
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  Lapis Bard’s latest exciting launch is a superb line of addictive, cocktail-themed fountain pen inks with merry colours and merrier names. These luscious, dye-based inks are safe to handle. The odourless inks flow smoothly, providing a pleasurable writing experience each time. The water-soluble inks have been carefully formulated with an optimal pH and they…
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  Global Pen Expo @ Ahmedabad – Ellis Bridge over Inked waters! The Year 2020 is going to be a good one for the fountain pen. For starters, fountain pen sales, which had hit the absolute rock-bottom just a few years back, is steadily showing an upward trend globally and India is no exception. Young…
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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…
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