Give with heart: Some gems from small producers

There is often  a dilemma when it comes to finding an ideal gift for loved ones. The country is teeming ...

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Terracotta medley

Mansi Verma's stall sells a delightful jumble of things you’d love to take home.  An attractive lamp glows gently behind ...

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Child’s Potli

Potli is a wondrous khazana for little children. It introduces the child to the colourful, artistic world of Indian folk art and ...

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Coconut treasures

Rabiah is an NGO which sells a range of coconut products. There is coconut milk, coconut powder, coconut pickle, coconut ...

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Tableware from neem

The wondrous neem tree is famous for its many medicinal qualities. While neem leaf and bark have been used for ...

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Puppets and lampshades

Interested in quirky puppets? Dalavai Kullayaapa, an artist from Nimmalakunta, a remote village in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, makes ...

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Delightful sip

Manipur’s sylvan villages have within their folds a wealth of biodiversity which is slowly vanishing from its landscape and fading ...

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Rustic wool

India’s rich tradition in wool is fading from memory. For centuries pastoral communities sheared wool from sheep and sold it ...

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Earthy skincare

First Water Solutions offers a range of natural cosmetic products from solid perfumes and face scrubs to body lotions and ...

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Himalayan delights

The Inhere Aajivika Utthan Samiti (IAUS), an NGO in Almora district of Uttarakhand, runs a successful non-profit, Himalayan Fresh, which ...

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Seed or flower?

Abracadabra! You can create magic too. Plant a pencil, sprinkle some water and watch it grow into marigold flowers. Seed ...

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Cane comfort

Makon Home makes furniture and other products from rattan cane and bamboo. Pooja Moirangthem founded Makon Home to market cane ...

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Smell divine

Niyor makes perfumes that are natural and unusual. Founded by Ishan Bhasin in 2019, Niyor’s perfumes are made from essential ...

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Soft toys and more

Deepa Pant, an alumnus of NIFT, started Svatanya to help empower underprivileged women by upskilling them to make handcrafted products. ...

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Northeast's specials

Fear not the big bad city. Armed with the world’s hottest chilli, the famed bhutjholokia of Northeast fame, you can whoosh away ...

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Baiga wall art

Baiga art is bright and beautiful and looks fabulous on a wall. “It’s our traditional craft and we love doing ...

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Warm and cosy

Project Purkul is a cloth-based handicrafts collective based in Purkul village near Mussoorie in Uttarakhand. The women artisans here are ...

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Bliss with jaggery

Instead of white refined sugar try healthier options made with organic jaggery and honey.  Founded by Apeksha Grover Bagga, Doree ...

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Vegan spreads and snacks

Peepal Farm rescues animals and runs an organic farm in Dhanotu village in Himachal Pradesh. Started in December 2014 by ...

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Stitches of love

Devotion is an apt name for a shop that sells products lovingly made by rural women in Haryana. You can ...

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Snowy animal dolls

Have you seen animals from snowy Ladakh in warm Delhi? Of course not. But you could catch a glimpse of ...

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Eco-friendly rice

India is undergoing a rice revolution in long forgotten rice varieties. Farmers are keen to grow traditional varieties and consumers ...

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Arty puzzles

Froggmag sells folk, tribal and miniature art jigsaw puzzles. Run by Shalini Ghosh, an alumnus of the National Institute of ...

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Fine handicrafts

Some Fine Handicrafts has tables, trays, lamps and furniture with beautiful art work. You can buy a tray with a ...

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Guitar from Ladakh

Tsering Angchuk is a musician from Changtang in Ladakh. Sitting inside his stall at Dilli Haat, he strums a traditional ...

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Art and a story

Patachitra is Bengal’s traditional art of scroll painting, still largely done with natural colours. Patuas or chitrakars are a community ...

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Wooden games, trinkets

Shikha Shah makes and sells colourful wooden games, trinkets and even repurposed car tyres. Shah began Scrapshala in 2016, learning ...

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Upcycled décor

Get handpainted decor, stationery and items for festivities while supporting the women in Delhi’s Ghazipur slum community. Gulmeher strives to ...

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