Gift some truly fast-paced and addictive games

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Funskool continues to be in the forefront of developing dynamic games for creative and alert children keeping pace with today’s competitive world. Their products – ranging from traditional to high-tech – are developed keeping the evolving needs of children and changing times in mind.  Continue reading


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Quality gifts for professionals and students

Camlin offers a wide range of corporate gifts that can come in handy for day-to-day use. So the next time you are thinking of a festive or a special occasion gift, make your work-associates happy with some attractive corporate gifts from Camlin. Continue reading

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Gifting knowledge and inspiration

At a delicate and defining stage of their life and career, teenage students need proper grasping of the events happening around them. They also need resources to properly process the deluge of information that will stand them in good stead as they get ready for the challenges ahead. Books and publications, which help and guide them in this process, will make the most precious gift.

Each edition of Manorama Yearbook, invariably more than a 1000-page volume, is designed and projected as a special general knowledge resource, which offers students, quizzers and scholars a great deal of new and updated information. It can make the perfect gift since it’s a handy learning aid that has also progressively become informative every year. As a record of the year gone by, the yearbooks is an elegant summary and ready reckoner. A yearbook is easier to refer to and more credible as well.

One cannot really deny the fact that digital resources are more widely and easily accessible – on laptops, desktops and even on mobile devices. However, they cannot fully substitute the joy of checking the facts physically by going through a book. And that’s exactly what a yearbook will do for a diehard reader or a knowledge seeker. Apart from being highly, they present information in an easily digestible format.

For example, serving as a rich database of general knowledge, the Competition Success Review (CSR) maintains that it is the only publication, which has promoted and stuck to the concept of positive thinking. It mentions: “The idea of success is so deeply embedded with the ethos of CSR that the reader is motivated to focus on the goal and put in his best. You dream success; you live success and ultimately achieve it.” Staying tuned to the changing times CSR offers an outlet to the changing world and our country. CSR yearbook and other Genera Knowledge (GK) books make a thoughtful gift for the career-minded students who are on the verge of entering a new challenging world.

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A comprehensive elegant yearbook courtesy Scholastic

Sifting through a yearbook not so long ago was an enjoyable ritual keenly awaited. It would tell us about the important events in the year gone by – sporting records, revolutions, natural disasters, political happenings and so on. Though with the advent of Internet, their prominence has diminished a touch, for genuine book lovers who relish general information, something like the Scholastic Yearbook 2013 can be a good gift. Budhaditya Bhattacharya of The Hindu narrates in article what makes it interesting:

  • The year 2012 began with the sinking of the Costa Concordia where 30 people died and more than 60 were injured, a massive power outage in India, the Olympics, new Presidents in India, Egypt and France, Hurricane Sandy and the re-election of Barack Obama. The yearbook tells you all this in more detail with accompanying illustrations by animation filmmaker Priya Kurian.
  • “Visual breaks make information more palatable and the yearbook’s layout is geared towards breaking the tedium of the text with the help of illustrations,” Tina Narang, the managing editor of Scholastic states. “We commission various subject experts and journalists to write for the Yearbook…and Yearbook 2013 has a particularly long line-up. There is a financial journalist with a round-up of the economy, a Supreme Court advocate on the landmark Indian court judgements, a fashion journalist on the latest from the world of fashion.”
  • The tedium of the text is also broken by dividing it into distinct categories such as sports, entertainment, science and environment. Apart from data about the year 2012, the book also provides a timeline of India and the world, an overview of the states and countries respectively, and lists important office bearers. Naturally, such an effort couldn’t have been one person’s handiwork.
  • Some of the contributors are Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, an independent publishing consultant, Brinda Miller, director of Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai and Amrita Lahiri, a Mumbai based Kuchipudi dancer, among others.
  • The yearbook ends with a series of ‘top ten’ lists — of famous monuments, population densities, richest countries, and most spoken languages. The book is intended for students and general knowledge aficionados, but can the utility of the yearbook, as an object, withstand the pressures of the internet, which has arguably spawned a new kind of nerd?

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Light-hearted and harmless gifts

Think about it, you are thinking to get a piece of merchandise for someone, which not only has a lasting utility value but will also bring a laugh on their face, won’t that be doubly joyful and meaningful? Will that be something very interesting or innovative on this Christmas and the New Year eve? Continue reading

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Gift cookies, celebrate Christmas

Is it that you are gifting your close business associates and employees the same old gift every year? Why not add some flavor and taste to your gifting program? You may consider giving them special cookies packs. Continue reading

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Christmas tree and other traditions

As Christmas approaches, Santa Claus is eagerly awaited by children and so also the goodies and gifts he brings along. It is interesting to note that the popular view of Santa we all have today – with the sleigh, the reindeer and the chimney – was derived largely from Clement Moore’s ‘The Night Before Christmas’, the 1822 book, further reinforced further by an advertising campaign. Continue reading

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A brand synonymous with exquisite quality

It’s a world-renowned company that sells close to 500m pens worldwide annually. It manufacturers and markets one of the most preferred pens in the country, putting it well ahead of most other pen models available in the market. Continue reading

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Birthday party return gift tips

We pointed out in our previous blog how Sachin Tendulkar was excited at the mention of his favorite gifts. According to him, the greeting cards his kids made for him were very special.

Your child might well have received some interesting gifts on their birthday. But how much you do you spend to conceive a return-gift idea on your child’s birthday? Let us check some interesting birthday return gift ideas.

A child’s birthday party is not only about the candles, musical chairs, cakes etc. It is also about nice return gifts for a child. The off-beat take-home tokens remain an integral part of the birthday celebration. Most children indeed look forward to the goodies. If they do not get any, they are disappointed.

Birthday party planners mention that often parents choose to outsource birthday party. However, but they are keen on doing their own return gifts. Their advice to the parents is avoid deviating from the basic party theme and not to treat return gifts as the least priority on their list or else they will end up getting the wrong things.

Also, spending huge money is not the way. Your gift will stand out if it is unique, and not costly. Think what the child’s friends would like take away and make the birthday party gift a memorable one. You should give back gifts that are related to their interest.

According to professional children’s party organizers, the moment ones gets a child involved in the act of decorating or working out a return gift idea, it becomes more compelling and meaningful. They advise parents to plan some activity leading to a birthday party return gift.

One example is planting and nurturing trees will make children aware of nature.  

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