In letter and spirit

Sheetal

What’s the difference between a normal writer and a calligraphy artist? “It is not that we write letters to form a sentence, we draw them,” says Calligraphy artist Kamaljeet Kaur. 

Drawing something flawlessly is a tedious yet an addictive exercise. Every line or stroke gone wrong is erased to achieve the perfection. But it can be mastered. 

As Kamaljeet Kaur conducts a workshop on traditional calligraphy on Sunday evening, she wishes to revive this dying art. She feels doing calligraphy is meditative and it directs the surplus energy of the learners into something constructive. 

She says gel pens are eating away the writing skills of a child and they should be replaced by fountain pens. Furthermore, durable ink pens will help us in preventing pollution which is caused by various reasons, apart from the plastic waste of gel pens. Coming back to the copperplate, an umbrella term for different forms of pointed pen calligraphy, it requires an oblique holder and a flexible nib that splits providing thick and thin strokes when needed. Kamaljeet, despite her busy schedule, finds time for a workshop to turn more and more amateurs into calligraphists.