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 ...

Classic bulk-bought ball-point pens cause painful writer’s bumps, while traditional fountain pens can often be too messy and high-maintenance for some. That one, unbranded hotel pen you’d ...

Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ... writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came along, they were revolutionary, albeit ...

For a generation of avid users like Amitav Ghosh, getting the first fountain pen was a major rite of passage while growing up in India. "The moment you graduated from a pencil or ballpoint ...