Diwali gifting ideas 2021
With Diwali fast approaching next week, here are some great gifting ideas to treat your loved ones to this festival of light and all are from small south Asian run businesses! Do you run your own business? Then come and join our new e-commerce platform - The Desi Market! It’s an online marketplace in which south Asian run businesses and brands can sell their products and services to people looking to buy from and support small and diverse sellers and service providers. To join simply visit The Desi Market, create an account and follow the steps to list your products/services, pictures, prices and past reviews (if you have them). It’s really easy. Together, let’s bring south Asian buyers and sellers in one place!
Started by Kamini Dhanak, Aarena Cakes specialise in moist and delicious vegan cakes, eggless cakes and normal sponge cakes for all occasions. Although traditional desi sweets are typically the norm during Diwali, a cake or even cupcakes can be a delightful surprise, especially for people who aren’t keen on desi sweets. Aarena Cakes are made to order and can be decorated in whatever theme you ask for. You can order her baked treats through our e-commerce platform; The Desi Market. The name Aarena is a mix of her two beautiful children’s names!
This beautiful snacks brand is a dedication to the founding sibling pair’s parents, and in particular, their mum! Alongside their trademark, delicious lotus bites (popped and roasted lotus seeds which are then seasoned with interesting flavours like Bengal pepper and tomato and herbs), they have Diwali gift boxes. Coming in different sizes, the gift boxes contain medjool dates stuffed with quinoa and flavours like salted caramel, chai spice and pineapple and coconut to chose from. With no refined sugar, they’re a unique and healthier take on more traditional Diwali sweets.
Sunshine Ninja is a handmade and antique jewellery brand started by the wonderfully bubbly and generous Mana Tripathi. She sources (and cleanses!) the antique jewellery herself and uses both fresh water and glass pearls for her handmade pieces, most of which contain her signature smiley face bead. She also does custom made pieces and is happy to marry up antique and handmade pieces if you contact her. Mana makes everything from rings, necklaces and earrings to glasses chains, hand chain bracelets and pearl initial pendents. As she says, everything is made with love to bring smile to the wearers face.
Creäsians create greeting cards and prints with a desi spin. They have Diwali cards (including one for a couple’s first Diwali together) and Bandi Chhor Divas cards. Any one of these cards would be a great accompaniment to their prints as a gift. They offer religious prints which include Sikh prayers and holy images as well as Gayatri mantra prayer prints. They also have some funny alcohol themed kitchen prints for when you want a give a cheeky gift.
Accents UK Diwali gift boxes are the perfect way to say I love you to the special women in your life whether its mothers, friends, sisters, girlfriends, wives or more. Inside each box is a beautiful pair of jumka earrings, two miniature bars of Lindt chocolate and hand decorated tea lights. If you’d like something that keeps giving then the lifestyle brand also offer quarterly subscription boxes featuring jewellery and self-care items curated from other brands. On the hunt for something more personal? Then there’s the brand’s wide range of gorgeous jewellery from Indian to everyday and fusion pieces. Each piece will uplift you, just as brand found Nikita Makwana aims to do!
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