Gifting
What actually goes into a Rakshabandhan hamper
A rakhi, something sweet, and something that is still on a shelf next year. Here is how we build ours, and how to work backwards from the date you need it.
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The difficulty with a Rakshabandhan gift is that the two obvious options pull in opposite directions. Sweets and a rakhi are the tradition, and they are gone inside a week. Something that lasts — a frame, a keepsake — is lovely and reads as slightly beside the point on the day itself.
A hamper is the answer people keep arriving at, and the reason is simple: it does both. Our boxes are built on that principle, so it is worth setting out what is in one and why.
What is in ours
Every Rakshabandhan hamper we send is packed by hand into a keepsake box of about 22 × 22 × 8 cm, on a bed of shredded paper, and contains four things:
- The handmade pieces. Two or three, from 8 to 15 cm each — a bloom pot, a posy, a keychain. This is the part that is still there in March.
- A printed rakhi card, so the thread is not something you have to remember separately.
- A four-piece box of chocolates. If a brand is out of stock we substitute an equivalent rather than hold the order.
- A battery fairy-light string, which is what makes the box photograph well when it is opened — and, more usefully, is the bit that gets reused.
The box itself is meant to be kept. That is why it is a box and not a wrap.
From the shop
Sunflower Rakhi Hamper 1
₹999₹1,799
Choosing between them
The pieces inside are what separates one hamper from another, so choose on those rather than on the colour of the box:
- For a desk. A bloom pot and a posy. It ends up next to a monitor and stays there — the most-looked-at gift you can send someone who works indoors.
- For a hostel room or a first flat. Fairy lights and a keychain do more work than a frame does. Nothing here needs a nail in the wall.
- For a sister who already has everything. The mirror keychains, honestly. They are small, they get carried, and they get noticed.
- For a younger sibling. Bright over subtle, and something that clips onto a bag.
If you want a specific combination — her colours, his team, a piece swapped for another — message us on WhatsApp before you order. Every piece is made to order anyway, so a substitution is a conversation, not an exception.
Working backwards from the date
This is the part that goes wrong, and it is arithmetic rather than judgement.
Each piece is made after you order it. That takes 1–3 business days to make and pack, and delivery adds 3–5 days anywhere in India — so about 4–8 days in all, from the day the order is confirmed.
Which means: for a hamper to be in someone's hands on the day, order it at least ten days before, and a fortnight if you are sending it somewhere the courier will find slow. In the last week before Rakshabandhan we are making continuously and the make time sits at the top of that range, not the bottom.
There is no cancellation once payment is made — work starts immediately, which is exactly what the lead time is spent on. The details are in our shipping policy and refund policy.
One thing worth knowing about the price
Delivery is free on orders over ₹599, and a hamper clears that on its own. If you are adding a small piece to a hamper — a keychain for a cousin, a clip for a niece — it ships in the same parcel at no extra cost. Two separate orders placed an hour apart do not.
From the shop
Lavender Bloom Rakhi Hamper
₹999₹1,699
Message us on WhatsApp with the date you need it by, and we will tell you plainly whether it can be made in time. We would rather say no in July than apologise in August.
