Early this month, the spotlight was on Fika, Adyar. Pen lovers from the city made a beeline to the Chennai Pen Show to take a glimpse at some unique products and delve into the stories of their making ...

When fountain pens first came ... Loud created the first ballpoint pen. It worked well on leather and wood and the like, but absolutely shredded paper, making it almost useless.

Making a steel nib for a pen required 14 operations ... had to be reloaded with ink by the end of each sentence. The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an insurance salesman named Louis Edson ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

Lamy, established in 1930, mainly markets ballpoint and fountain pens priced at several thousand yen in Europe and the United States. Its products are popular among stationery enthusiasts.