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Swaraj is my Birthright – Sulekha launches new range of Inks

The long-awaited Swaraj Range of inks from Sulekha are now available. Initially four shades have been unveiled – Pink Fantasy, Sunkissed Saffron, Turquoise Talisman and Twilight Shades. “More offbeat hues are expected shortly,” said Kaushik Maitra, the Managing Director of Sulekha. “These shades have been developed inhouse based on the requests from the community and…
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Swadeshi, Sadhinota,  Sulekha – My Experiments with Truth of a Fountain Pen kind.

I spent a good part of the last two days with the students of the Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC) as they organised their Annual English Literature Festival, the Communiqué. More than a hundred students from as many as 15 city colleges participated in the fest which was fiercely contested, and then thoroughly enjoyed. As…
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The Curious Case of Ink Pricing

We are a strange people. When it comes to posturing, we are jingoistic to the point of being obnoxious. We wear our nationalism on our sleeves like oversized logos, while in the heart of our hearts we couldn’t care less, for what drives our purchase decision is really the price consideration. The strange, nay, inexplicable…
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Suvobrata Ganguly’s Pentales: a book of short stories about fountain pens and the post pandemic Kolkata Book Fair – Jyotshna Agiwal

I must admit upfront that I am privileged, as way before the Pentales had taken its current shape, I had had the pleasure of going through the draft. I have also had the pleasure of seeing (and knowing) most of the pens – “old knaves” as Suvobrata Ganguly calls them – whose stories feature in…
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Click me a Colour

Click Aristocrats. I am obsessed with Click Aristocrats. I can never have enough of them and seldom am I without one with me. My birthdays and other special days are easy for my near and dear ones – all they have to do is buy me another Aristocrat and to be fair to them, I…
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Prof Dilip Shah, Fountain Pens and the art of transforming education – Jyotshna Agiwal

Prof Dilip Shah. Officially he is the Dean of Student Affairs of the Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC). But for many like me, his students (past and present), he is the latest avatar of God, no less. Prof Shah – Dilip Sir, as he is universally called, is a man of many parts – he…
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Depression’s New Weapon: Fountain Pen in the Pandemic Frenzy – Jyotshna Agiwal

Depression and the pandemic have become the deadliest couple to walk on the Earth hand-in-hand. The pandemic should be declared as the worst word, emotion, and state of the 21st century. It has caused endless damage economically, physically, and emotionally. Amidst all the chaos, people’s mental health has had to endure a lot. There is…
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