About Us

As doting parents, we started looking for a way, to help our son engage in play with the right toys that will also help in his holistic development, without having any screens involved. We wanted our son to play with the traditional toys and games that we have grown up with, but they were nowhere to be seen! It was a heart-breaking realization. Traditionally made Indian toys are slowly disappearing due to the preference for imported, flashy, cheap toys from China. Makers of handcrafted toys in corners of India are struggling to hold on to this dying art. We decided to do something about it.

Khelna is the place of nostalgia and hub of imagination.

Khēlnā is a combination of Khel+Na, which literally translates into ‘play please’ in Hindi. The word is also a part of the vocabulary of our mother tongue Bengali where খেলনা means ‘a toy’.

With Khelna, we strive to bring a dash of imagination for your child, a slice of nostalgia for you, and livelihood to hundreds of artisans in India. Our toys are 100% non-toxic, safe, handmade, and of premium quality that are curated by a mother, for your precious little one.

A MOTHER’S WISHThere was a time a couple of years back when toys used to be toys and video games used to be video games. These days, however, it can be hard to tell the two apart. With technology taking up more and more of our life, children are always engrossed in various sizes of screens that are in turn causing many negative health effects like lack of attention span, low self-esteem, poor quality sleep, limited social life, anxiety and so much more? As a mother of two, it’s hard to even imagine something like this happening to a child.Khelna was born in 2017, when I became a mother to a beautiful baby boy and I pledged to myself to provide him with the best. Like every parent, my husband and I wanted to see our kid happy all the time and that’s how we realized that he loved toys! It’s not a secret that toys are essential to the holistic development of a child.