Radhika Nath Saha -Unsung Hero of Indian Fountain Pen

Sovan Roy explored Indian History of Science to re-discover a lost personality who obtained the first fountain pen patent in India in 1900 and within first 30 years of  20th century obtained about 14 patents from India, Britain, Germany and USA for at least 22 inventions on fountain pens. Dr R. N. Saha, the 'Father of Indian Fountain Pen' was born at Chinsurah of undivided Bengal in 1870, Radhika Nath passed away in 1933 at Varanasi. He was the first  'Swadesi' pen maker of India and established the first engine turned Stylo and fountain pen factory in India at colonial Benares that started production of his patented conventional and stylo type fountain in 1907. The factory was registered in 1903. He was a Surgeon from the then Calcutta Medical College.

Sovan Roy has provided all evidences and patents with coloured and black and white photographs of different unknown documents on this forgotten pioneering Swadeshi fountain pen maker of India. Book has been published on 01.11.2019. Price Rs 700. Published by Kabitika in collaboration with Inked happiness.

Contributions to the Exploration of Antiquity

Roy has been exploring and preserving articles of antiquity for decades. He has a collection of lost brands of Indian fountain pens, philatelic releases on Rabindranath Tagore, Old Bengali musical records, old Terra- cotta, manuscripts, paintings and miscellaneous other antiques of heritage. He has made a substantial documentation on Indian Fountain pens. He has been included for participation in the joint Exhibition namely 'Revisiting 42.' at  the Jamini Roy Gallery of ICCR, Calcutta.

At ICCR, Calcutta, during participating in joint Exhibition "Revisiting 42'

Honours and Felicitations.

Adopted from the book authored by Sovan Roy and published by the Publishing Syndicate, Calcutta.

Poetry


Limitations by Sovan Roy

The essence of love, / in a nocturnal dream / spins a yarn to bloom / a muriate of ammonia, / with essence of desire;-while the dawn approaches / to clear the mist, / and unveils suddenly a disappointed heart.

The essence of life, / can never transcend / the little bridge between / birth and death; / dancing waves as if , / between sea and shore / stretching golden girts / one after another, / for predestined cataclysm.

-but some viviperous seeds / dare spreading roots / in intertidal beach.

Opportunity by Sovan Roy

A deep relation / demands continuous care/as the essence, /of intense sense of possession if felt uncared, / keeps alive a diffusive encounter / between both / with unspoken words/

and amassed acquisitions / of imaginary incidents, /

originating from values within self, / and forms a noose to enclose /

in a delusive net / of contemptible attraction.

The human nature / of ravenous desire / to love and to be loved / so facilitates to loose foot /

for forbidden thrills; / bachelors look around for such an opportunity.

Wild affair by Sovan Roy

Bare alien women / rejoice sunbath pleasure / on the beaches of Goa, / amorous lovers kiss openly / on city sidewalks; / and the shipping harbour / where some women with wild stares / entice tired sailor; / on Calcutta streets! / some gentlemen near forbidden abodes / for aboriginal pleasure / throng together; / all, I have been feeling / as wild reflections of civilized earth.

But this evening / after a pleasant shower / a lady rainbow,I wonder! / on the eastern sky / facing dusky sun / becomes gradually bare. / Suavity of the virgin / brings lustful tremor / of unwinding youth / to eyes of imbecile Helios, / and spills wonderful colours / on the face of melancolised universe;

Intimate hugging for deep affairs / diffuses in eternal peace; / sweat drops on masculinity bare / and disheveled hairs of exhausting virginity / slowly disappear, / as darkness invades the earth; / a vesper stoic spreads on me a might, / of primordial wild affair.

Felicitation by the Vice Chancellor of the University Of Burdwan

                             

Academics

A PhD from the Banaras Hindu University, India on the topic Organic matter and nutrient traps in a dry tropical forest habitat in the field of Forest Ecology. M.Sc from the same university. B.Sc (Honours) from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal-India. Studied 'Digital Image Analysis in the Field of Remote Sensing' from Indian Space Research Organization at Dehradun; 'History Science and Society - a training in the History of Science' from The Asiatic Society Calcutta; 'Opportunities in Biotechnology for SMEs' from the National Institute of Small Industries Extension Training, Govt of India, Hyderabad; 'ICT Tools for e-Readiness in Government (Module I & Module II)' sponsored by Department of Personnel and Training and offered by National Informatics Centre (Govt. of India)- Calcutta. Participated in 'On job training on Cyber Security for Government Employees' at Cyber Security centre of Excellence, Department of Information Technology & Electronics, Government of West Bengal. Post doctoral research from the Bose Institute, Calcutta as the CSIR-Senior Research Associate. Serving for the Government of West Bengal since 2003.