Festival gift
Diwali gifts for the family you can't get home to
Light and warmth, sent afar. Pick a design, add your own words, and send a small animated gift — no app for them to open, just a link.
Create a diwali giftDiwali is the festival most likely to be spent apart from the people it's actually about. The flights are full, the leave was refused, the work is in another city — and what gets sent instead is a forwarded image with a diya on it that forty other people also received.
The gift that survives that comparison has your own photographs in it. Ten of them from the year, a line under each, opened on the phone they're already holding. Or five wrapped boxes with your letter at the bottom, which is closer to how the day actually works.
2 ways to send a diwali gift
Photo album
A little album on a desk — flip through the photos, one memory to a page.
Nested surprise boxes
Five wrapped boxes, each hidden inside the last — then a teddy hands over your letter.
How sending a diwali gift works
- 1Pick a design — each one is a small scene they open and play with.
- 2Add your own words, names and photos. Nothing is required except the bits that make it theirs.
- 3Get a private link and send it. It opens in any browser, on any phone.
Making a diwali gift land
- Send it in the morning, before the round of calls — by evening everyone's phone is unusable
- Photos from the year, not from last Diwali — the point is what they missed, not the festival repeating
- Write it how you'd say it — Hinglish in Roman script is what the scenes are set in, and it's how most of us text anyway
- Send to the family group's oldest member directly — the album travels round the house from there
- Pair it with something at the door — sweets arriving an hour later turns a link into a whole gesture
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It's free, it takes about five minutes, and there's no account on either end.
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