You walk in, drop your bag, and even though the day is technically over, your body hasn’t caught up yet. The meeting that ran long is still replaying. The traffic is still in your shoulders. You sit down to finally relax and realise you don’t actually know how to switch the mind off, only how […]
It happens every August. Rakhi arrives faster than expected, the family WhatsApp group fills with reminders, and somewhere in the hustle, the actual gift becomes an afterthought, sidelined after the rakhi and the sweets are sorted. You end up picking whatever is closest, a boxed hamper off a counter, and telling yourself it is the […]
A few years ago, corporate gifting meant a diary, a pen, and a card with the year printed on it. Walk into a Fortune 500 office in Mumbai today, and you’ll notice something different sitting on desks and in welcome kits: bamboo organisers, refillable drinkware, hampers curated around a person rather than a designation. The […]
Most new hires decide how they feel about a company in the first ninety minutes of their first day, long before their manager has finished the induction deck. HR teams know this instinctively, which is why so many have already invested in employee onboarding kits. What fewer teams have figured out is why some kits […]
A few years ago, “eco-friendly” on a gift tag was mostly decoration. The candle inside was still paraffin, the packaging still plastic-wrapped, and the word “sustainable” did more work on the label than the product itself did in practice. That’s changed. Clients and employees today can tell the difference between a gift genuinely made with […]
Walk into any office in Mumbai this year, and you’ll notice something. The generic diaries have disappeared from gifting budgets. So have the branded pen sets nobody ever uses twice. In their place, HR teams and business owners are choosing something that would have seemed unusual five years ago: crystal trees, citrine bowls, and Vastu-aligned […]
Light a candle in a closed room for an hour. Then open a window and notice what hits you first, the lingering fragrance, or a stale, slightly chemical undertone you couldn’t quite place while it was burning. If it were a paraffin candle, that undertone has a name. And once you know what’s actually in […]
Most people spend more time picking a gift bag than the gift itself. And when it comes to housewarmings, the usual suspects, a fruit basket, a diffuser, and a decorative lantern, are lovely, but they’re also forgettable. They get admired for a day and shelved by the weekend. Here’s what doesn’t get shelved: a Vastu […]
You’ve received one. That stiff, rectangular envelope with a pre-loaded card inside, ₹500 to spend at some store you may or may not visit. It’s technically a gift. It’s technically generous. And yet, when you try to remember how it made you feel, there isn’t much to recall. Now think about the last time someone […]
Picture this: it’s the end of the financial year. Two vendors you’ve worked with send you something. The first sends a generic pen set in a plastic box, the kind that could have come from anywhere. The second sends a beautifully curated, thoughtfully assembled hamper with your company’s name subtly embossed on the packaging. Which […]
