Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Handmade Goods At Your Door Steps- Aporv.com

Press Release:
Aporv (pronounced a-poor-v) means Unique in Sanskrit and is the online destination for Indian handicrafts. Like its name, www.aporv.com tries to bring the Unique creativity from Indian artisans and designers to the global audience through this online platform.


















Aporv was launched on 5th June 2010, on the World Environment Day. Since then Aporv.com has partnered with thousands of artisans across India and brought their creativity to the global audience. Aporv.com has got visitors from 90+ countries and has buyers buying from India, USA, UK, Singapore and many requests from other countries too. Aporv.com ships to almost all countries globally and integrated payment gateway with Paypal and Vesign secure payment gateways. They have got some amazing feedback from their customers with regard to their service. They have won a few awards too and their founder Sudip Dutta's' TEDx talk can be found here.
Aporv has 5 unique differentiation and were among the first ones to launch the "No Question Asked Return Policy" in India. Another important differentiation when compared to numerous other online stores is that Aporv sells the products as stories to help the global customer make an educated buy. For example, you can know more about Kalamkari, Leather Painting, Wood Marquetry, Black Pottery, Meenakari, etc and understand the process, the artisan and then buy the product. Aporv.com is a new age Inspired Bazaar for Indian Handicrafts that brings together the old craft with new age buyers who value authentic creativity.





I was just checking out their site and all I can say is that I would really like my money-plant to actually start growing money instead of leaves!

Here are some of the products I like. (  Click on the images to  go to the concerned page on the site!)

First ones are my abs favourites!






These have been made of terracotta , wow!


These are actually  natural loofahs!  Really pretty!

Shown above is a set of 6 loofahs which come in a paper vase!





Btw, nobody paid me to write this post but they should, you know;)