A safer Diwali on the terrace
Cotton clothes, a bucket of water and sand, and an adult beside every child.
Planning office Diwali gifts
Lead times, budgets per head and how to get the cards right for 25 or 250 people.
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Notes from Chandpol Gift Pataka
Guides, care tips and stories from behind the counter.
What is inside a 30-item gift box
A walk through the Rajwada box, item by item, and how long the evening lasts.
What to write on a Diwali gift card
Short, warm and specific: how to word the card that goes inside a cracker gift box, with examples we use.
Gift box or loose crackers: which to give
When a ready box makes a better gift, when a hand-picked set does, and how the cost compares for the same budget.
A packing day in the room above our Chandpol shop
Cartons in, gift boxes out: how six people pack about 300 boxes a day in the three weeks before Diwali.
Seeing Jaipur’s Diwali bazaar lights with children
Johari, Bapu and Chandpol bazaars light up for Diwali. A route for families, with timings and parking.
Sending a cracker gift to family in another town
How we get a gift box to relatives in Ajmer, Jodhpur or Udaipur, what it costs and what they need to do.
Cracker gifts beyond Diwali night
Bhai Dooj, Govardhan, weddings and New Year: other days families in Jaipur give sparklers and gift boxes.
How we price a ₹1,950 gift box
Crackers, the box, ribbon, card and hands: a plain breakdown of what goes into our Rajwada gift box.
Diwali booking opens 15 September.
Get the gift box list and the last order date on WhatsApp.