Check out our new website at www.bpbweekend.com!If you've been bad all year, we bring you one last chance to get on Santa's good side. Not only are these gifts cool and quirky, they also come packed with karmic points. Hallelujah!
Root for a cause
Blue Banyan’s silver jewellery champions a dual cause - raising your couture currency and supporting the employment of rural Indian artisans. The organisation identifies indigenous skills, transforms them into high fashion and stocks them at the city’s hippest stores. Half of all profits go back to the artists. Especially crafty are their silver earrings moulded in tree sap, chunky bejewelled bangles and crushed glass-painted pendants.
Getting there: The Bombay Store, FabIndia, Bombay Electric and Taj Khazana. Jewellery starts at Rs 500 to Rs 5,500.
Fuel for the Soul
One of a kind, Soul F.u.e.l’s entire retail space is dedicated to a cause. Here you won’t only find products made by NGOs from all over India, but also volunteer information, NGO details and cause donation boxes. Every three months, new NGOs are given shelf life. Now showing: Aroma candles by ADAPT, silk wallets by Advitya and Welfare of Stray Dogs towels and cushions.
Getting there: Shop No 12, New Jalsarshan, 288 Perry Cross Road, Bandra (W), call 65280465. Starts at Rs 100 onwards.
Footing the Bill
Metta Foot Reflexology Center and Spa is your good knead of the year. Here, visually impaired masseurs are trained to locate your problem areas, coaxing the pain right out with amazing dexterity. Owner Jonita Figueredo, a nurse-turned-yoga teacher and National Association for the Blind (NAB) volunteer, has Metta’s newly introduced gift vouchers out just in time for the holiday season.
Getting there: 53, Suravi House, Pali Village, Bandra (W), call 9870719923. Treatments start at Rs 200 for 30 minutes.
PS: Find more karmic gifting options in bpb's article on CNNGo.com.
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