Guides
What to send, and when
Short answers to the questions people ask us before they send a box. No lists of forty things.
- Rakhi
Rakhi gifts when you live in different cities
Rakhi is easy when you are in the same house and awkward when you are not. A courier packet with a rakhi and a bar of chocolate does the job and says nothing. Here is what we send instead.
- Birthdays
Birthday gifts that arrive with their name on them
Most birthday gifts are bought the day before and look it. The difference between a gift and a good gift is whether it could have been for anyone else. Their name on the lid settles that.
- Anniversaries
Anniversary gifts, from the first year to the twenty-fifth
Anniversaries collect the best photographs and the fewest good gifts. Here is what works, whether it is your own or your parents’.
- Corporate
The Diwali corporate gifting guide, for companies tired of dry fruit
Every Diwali the same box of dry fruit goes to every desk, and every desk knows it. The fix is not a more expensive box. It is a box that is plainly for one person.
- Under ₹1,000
Good gifts under ₹1,000 that do not look it
A budget is not the problem. A gift that could have been for anyone is the problem. All three of these are under ₹1,000, delivered, and none of them could be for anyone else.
- Far from home
Gifts that shrink the distance
When you cannot be there, the gift has to carry the feeling on its own. A voucher does not. A box with their name on it, filled with the things they miss, does.
- Farewells
Farewell gifts for colleagues that beat a coffee voucher
The card everyone signs is nice. The voucher is forgotten by the weekend. Here is what a colleague takes to the next job.