Gift Hampers

A hamper is bought for one moment: the handover. It gets opened at a desk, at the door on Diwali evening, or on a stage in front of the rest of the office, and it has to look finished before anyone has seen what is inside. That moment is the only good reason to pay for a hamper rather than the piece alone.

Ours are spiritual gift hampers, the kind people also search for as pooja gift hampers or devotional gift boxes. Each is built around a gold plated pocket temple rather than around sweets and dry fruit, so the part that lasts is the part that matters.

What is in each hamper

Each pocket temple gift hamper holds one gold plated pocket temple, a small shrine with doors that fold shut, and two chocolates. The deity is the choice you make: Ram Darbar, Shreenathji, Radha Krishna, Balaji, Jagannath, Sai Baba, Ganesh, Nav Durga, or Mahavir for a Jain household. Same hamper, different family.

The one other hamper here is built for Raksha Bandhan: a rakhi with roli and chawal, a handmade diya, a Pichwai art bookmark, a card, a tin of anar dana, a body lotion and a shower gel. It sits among the Raksha Bandhan gifts for a brother, and it is also the one hamper here under 1,000.

Which occasion each hamper suits

Diwali and Dhanteras come first. Ram Darbar is the obvious hamper, since Diwali marks Ram's return to Ayodhya, and Shreenathji suits a Pushtimarg or Gujarati household where Diwali and the new year run into each other. In 2026 Dhanteras is on Friday 6 November and Lakshmi Puja on Sunday 8 November. For a staff list you know, a hamper is the ready choice among Diwali gifts for employees.

For a company list, a hamper answers the question every office asks, which is whether the gift will still look like a gift when forty people open theirs together. It is still a devotional piece, so keep it for a list you know, a family firm or a dealer network in one region. For a mixed list, the decorative pieces among corporate gifts for employees and clients are the safer choice.

At a wedding, a pocket temple hamper works as the top tier of wedding return gifts for guests: the twenty or thirty people who should get something better than the rest of the hall. For the couple themselves, it is a small shrine for a home that does not have a mandir yet.

The Nav Durga hamper belongs to Navratri and Durga Puja, and for a housewarming choose whichever deity the family already keeps.

Price bands

The pocket temple hampers sit just under 3,000, which is the band most people spend on a Diwali gift for a colleague or a client they know well. The Raksha Bandhan hamper sits under 1,000. We do not make a hamper under 500, and for a long list at that money a sweet box from a good local halwai is the honest answer.

A hamper, or the pocket temple alone

About half of what a pocket temple hamper costs is the temple itself. The rest pays for the chocolates and for the fact that it arrives ready to hand over. So buy the hamper when the handover is the point: a desk, a doorstep, a stage. Buy the pocket temple on its own when the gift is posted to someone who will open it alone, or when you are ordering a hundred for staff and the figure per head matters more than the moment.

How they arrive

Every piece is checked at our own warehouse before it goes out, and everything ships in our own packaging, made to be opened rather than merely to survive the journey. The pocket temple inside is gold electroplated over a layer of copper on a resin core, which is why it is light enough to post in numbers and why the detail holds at a small size. Keep it dry and dust it with a soft cloth. It is for display and puja, not for abhishek.

For fifty or more, send the count, the deity mix and the date through the bulk order enquiry page. Stock differs a lot from one deity to the next, and a list in one design is easier to fill than a mixture. For pieces held in real depth, see what works in numbers.