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From plants to flower lights to plantable stationery & candles! By choosing these eco-friendly gifts, let’s take a step towards a greener Diwali!
Diwali is here…the festival of lights and gifts. For a very long time, Diwali gifts have been restricted to mithai, crackers, lights and diyas. As the world is becoming more and more eco-friendly, we must change the age-old tradition of non-sustainable gifts.
Here are some Indian brands that have innovative gifts which are environment friendly!
From crackers that you can ‘Plant’ to festive boxes, here are some eco-friendly gifts to light up your Diwali!
If you want eco-friendly solutions to everyday items, then Bio Q is the go-to brand for you. In their special Diwali section they have eco-playing cards, gift trays, soy wax candles and cork holders, plantable stationery kits, plantable diaries and eco-lights.
BioQ develops products that are aimed at helping people make the switch to eco-friendly alternatives without compromising on aesthetics or functionality. Their sustainable and aesthetic products are perfect to gift to your friends & family.
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Who doesn’t love plants? You can never go wrong with gifting plants. There are plants for all kinds of people the ones who can maintain them and the ones who can’t. Pot and Plants special Diwali section has Plants’ looking Diwali gift boxes. These include a succulent plant, a succulent soil mix, an awesome and a cute ceramic pot, a beautiful Diwali card, a cute Buddha miniature set of 3 and a personalized message. With this, there are many other gift boxes to explore.
Celebrate Green Diwali by taking care of the environment and gifting each other green plants. This will not only bring in clean air but also enhance the beauty of one’s surroundings.
The Gram Art Project has a special initiative for Diwali called the Beej Parva 2021. BeejParva is a series of eco-friendly, exploitation-free and meaningful alternatives to mainstream firecrackers.
They have firecracker alternatives made from recyclable materials. These ‘crackers’ after sowing in water, hatch into beautiful plants that can even be consumed!
With this, they also have seed-sweets which are an alternative to regular sweets. Seed-sweets are seed balls made from waste paper, are biodegradable and will grow into consumables after sowing.
So this Diwali, don’t gift those noisy environment-harming crackers… instead give the Beej.
Brown Living Indian is a company that makes everyday products with a sustainable twist. These products help people switch to a more sustainable lifestyle with ease. From bamboo toothbrushes to eco-friendly tea coasters, they have a lot of things that you can pick up to gift someone this Diwali.
The Burlap People create and develop handcrafted, early develop burlap. They have an excellent range of tote bags, wallets and much more. For Diwali, they have a special hamper. It has three tea samples from Ahista, an incense stick collection by Phool, a microgreens grow kit from Tiny Acrae, a Burlap coaster set, and a Bag For Life tote bag.
All these goodies are encased in a Hasa Atelier box made from wild Sabai grass. Gift someone this Diwali hamper and make them take their first step towards an eco-friendly lifestyle.
Khwaab is a company that was started with the idea to financially empower women by imparting creative skills and using these skills to create products. With this dream, they have 29 female artisans who have gone from earning a few hundred rupees a month to an encouraging 8-9,000.
For Diwali, they have special handcrafted Genda festive lights. These lights have been made using hand-crocheted ‘flowers’ around LED lights. So gift these lights to someone and make them adorn their ‘thalis’ with these pretty reusable flower lights.
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Diwali without music is no fun, right? Happy Turtle Bamboo speaker helps you to make this Diwali music party sustainable. These speakers are made up of striped bamboo and have handcrafted mandala lanterns. They are portable and incredibly well-designed. The part is that they don’t require any wires or cables to charge. Just put your phone inside the speaker and you are good to go.
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So these are a few brands that make for great Diwali eco-friendly gifts. By gifting these eco-friendly & cruelty-free items this Diwali, let’s take a step towards a greener Diwali!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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