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Ethnic weaves, fragrant candles and organic scents
WEAVES AND STYLES FROM BENGAL Anushree Malhotra specializes in Bengal’s weaving techniques. Her clothes are ...
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Trinkets from the hills, skincare and no oil snacks
TRINKETS FROM THE HILLS SONAM Dorjee Negi welcomes every visitor to his stall at Dastkar’s ...
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Ladakh line: Products from the mountains
FROM HILLTOP FARMS Rinchen Youdol’s company, Reetsot, sells a variety of organic foods. There’s a ...
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Colourful metalware, ethnic weaves and more
METALWARE IN MANY SHAPES AND COLOURS Chinar Valley Arts is a home décor enterprise founded ...
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Give with heart: Some gems from small producers
Terracotta beauties Mansi Verma's stall sells a delightful jumble of things you’d love to take ...
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Smart snacks and heavenly sweets
Do you begin dreaming of spicy samosas and syrupy jalebis when you’re hungry? Banish the ...
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A gift of rice
From Onam to Pongal is the festive season when we meet and greet friends and ...
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Mahua for health and wealth
Mahua for health and wealth The versatile mahua tree is a gift from nature. It ...
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Fabric from plants and flowers
Fabric from plants and flowers Anuradha Singh is an expert in eco-printing, a method by ...
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Dolls to remember
WHAT’s a doll with a past? A heritage doll. Meet queen Gowdung Rani, fearsome female ...
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Introducing arts and crafts from all over India
Small producers and artisans need help to reach out to sell their wonderful products. They ...
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Neem tableware
The wondrous neem tree is famous for its many medicinal qualities. While neem leaf and ...
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Goatskin guitar
Tsering Angchuk is a musician from Changtang in Ladakh. Sitting inside his stall at Dilli ...
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Snow leopards, yaks
Have you seen animals from snowy Ladakh in warm Delhi? Of course not. But you ...
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Painting the jungle
Baiga art is bright and beautiful and looks fabulous on a wall. “It’s our traditional ...
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Northeast specials
Fear not the big bad city. Armed with the world’s hottest chilli, the famed bhutjholokia ...
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Art in every corner
Some Fine Handicrafts has tables, trays, lamps and furniture with beautiful art work. You can ...
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Coconut medley
Rabiah is an NGO which sells a range of coconut products. There is coconut milk, ...
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Terracotta beauties
Mansi Verma’s stall has a delightful jumble of things you’d love to take home. An ...
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Mushroom magic
Add zing to your meals with a spoon of mushroom powder or diced dried oyster ...
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Newspaper pencils
Family of Disabled (FOD), an NGO in Delhi, has started a micro-enterprise which makes pencils ...
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Leafy plates
Dilseng M. Sangma, an earnest young man from Meghalaya, manufactures plates and bowls from arecanut ...
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Salad heaven
Perk up your salads with inventive artisanal dressings you can match with your greens. Arugula ...
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Timeless ajrak
It is said that the origins of ajrak, a block-printed textile with rich colours, can ...
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Masks with herbs
iVillage, a social enterprise started by Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES), makes masks to suit ...
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Native laptop bags
Every season, Arti Gehlot and her team at Kirgiti pick one traditional fabric and learn ...
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Stylish Shibori
Ananda makes dresses, blouses, sarees, dupattas and stoles using an exquisite Japanese dyeing technique called ...
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Colourful carpets
In Mirzapur, India’s oldest carpet weaving hub, generation after generation is trained to become gifted ...
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Carved in stone
Black stoneware from Manipur is attractive, hardy and reasonably priced. You can get earthy coffee ...
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Natural cosmetics
Adri Naturals was started by Seema Khurana whose firm belief is that natural products make ...
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Kashida threads
Kashmir’s beautiful Kashida embroidery is full of nature imagery and floral patterns. Abdul Rashid Dar’s ...
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Honey from Etna
KAVITA Khorana and her husband started Etna in late 2015. They borrowed the name from ...
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Cool masks
Face masks are your armour against the deadly coronavirus. Buy a few from the Gulmeher Green ...
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Himalayan bounty
The Inhere Aajivika Utthan Samiti (IAUS), an NGO in Almora district of Uttarakhand, runs a successful ...
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Unique rice
India is undergoing a rice revolution in long forgotten rice varieties. Farmers are keen to ...
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Earthy skin
First Water Solutions offers a range of natural cosmetic products from solid perfumes and face scrubs ...
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Sinful chocolate
Handcrafted chocolates taste better and make you feel better. Queen & Bee’s range of tempting ...
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Winter knits
Kilmora’s sweaters and mufflers evoke memories of woollens knitted by grandmothers and aunts. The woollens ...
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Magic threads
Atiqa is a collective of Afghan women who have found a semblance of home in ...
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Chanderi times
A sari mela, organised by Dastkar, brought weavers from all over India to Delhi. Among ...
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Mighty flowers
Phool offers luxury incense sticks with the power of flowers. Light one and the fragrance ...
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Golden spice
Aranyam Natural Options specialises in turmeric, the super spice that the West has fallen in ...
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Natural pads
Koko Girl manufactures inexpensive sanitary pads in very soft, hygienic, organic cotton. The pads feel ...
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Paper baskets
Sona Kapoor began making a range of baskets from wastepaper as a hobby some years ...
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Art & a story
Patachitra is Bengal’s traditional art of scroll painting, still largely done with natural colours. Patuas ...
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Green pencils
Pencils made from recycled newspaper are as good as pencils made from wood. Sturdy and ...
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