Sulekha is a legacy. Sulekha is a legacy born out of a people’s need for self-reliance as a means of earning self-respect, at a time when they were fighting to break free from the shackles of a foreign yoke. Sulekha is an emotion, one that has very few parallels for fountain pen lovers in India…
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Okay, I will start by confessing upfront – I am an unabashed Click fan. My first fountain pen was a Click and I see no reason for writing with anything else. It is a love thing, you know! Naturally, I wanted to gift my brother a Click for Rakhi for which I did something that…
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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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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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