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Unique retirement gifts Search for a unique gift on retirement in India and the answer that comes back is nearly always the same object: an engraved plaque, a crystal trophy, a photo frame with the years of service across the bottom. It is worth saying plainly that this is the least unique gift at the function, and that it has a second problem. It fixes the present to the job that has just ended, on the one day the person is walking away from it. A retirement gift is better aimed at the years ahead than at the years behind. Where the gift is for a man, retirement gifts for men covers the horses, elephants and larger cast pieces that suit a farewell function. Where it is for a woman, retirement gifts for women covers the goddesses and the meenakari decor, and the teacher's farewell in particular. The rest of the decision is the same either way. The shawl, the shriphal and the memento Most Indian retirement functions hand over the same three things: a shawl, a shriphal and a memento. The first two are convention and nobody chooses them with much thought. The memento is the only part anyone actually decides, and it is the only part still in the house a year later, which is why it deserves the whole of the budget and most of the thought. It also explains the one thing to leave alone. A clock or a watch is the standard corporate memento, and many traditional households will not accept one as a gift at all, quite apart from it being an odd object to hand someone on the day they stop keeping office hours. Where the office has already settled on a clock, the family gift is the one that should be something else. What actually makes a gift unique Uniqueness comes from the fit rather than from the object being unusual, and the fit comes from information. The deity a household already keeps cannot be matched by anyone who does not know it, which is why the same modest piece can be the best gift on the table or the most forgettable one depending only on who chose it. Where you k