Setting the shelf…
Setting the shelf…

Some things machines will never learn.
Sun-cured achaar, hand-rolled papad and sevai, hand-dropped wadi — small batches from the women of the Silbatta collective.
The collective
Silbatta is a self-help group of women — from villages and city homes — who earn with the one skill no factory can copy: their hands.
हाथ से बना। दिल से बनाया।
Read our story →The old way
Whole spices, ground on stone, not machine-milled.

Jars and wadi rest in open sun for days, not hours.

Every wadi dropped, every sevai strand rolled by hand.

Small batches, packed by the woman who made them.

The food
The hands
“Pehli baar apni kamai se Diwali manayi.”
“The first time, I celebrated Diwali on my own earnings.”




Today Silbatta is a collective of women across villages and city neighbourhoods — and every rupee of profit is shared.
Meet the collective →Small batches sell out — every jar is one afternoon of one woman's work.
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