The Daftar Collection

Match the bag to your laptop's width, not its screen size — a 15.6-inch Windows laptop is often wider than a 16-inch MacBook.

• 13-inch — The Ajmer (₹3,300), The Jaipur (₹3,500), and the smaller size of The Umaid and The Mangla. Roughly 33 cm wide.
• 15-inch — The Pali (₹3,800), The Kota (₹3,900), and the larger Umaid and Mangla. Roughly 38 cm wide.
• 16-inch — The Mehrangarh Briefcase (₹4,100) and The Sonar (₹9,900). Roughly 41 cm wide.

The Barmer Tech Sleeve comes in three sizes and takes anything from an 11-inch iPad to a 16-inch laptop.

• Briefcase — structured and shallow at 6 cm deep, so it holds a laptop and documents flat and keeps its shape when set down. The Mehrangarh, Sonar and Umaid.
• Messenger — 9 cm deep with an adjustable crossbody strap: more room for a charger, notebook and lunch, and easier on a commute. The Ajmer, Jaipur, Kota, Pali and Mangla.
• Sleeve — no strap. The Barmer slides inside a larger bag, or carries alone when you want nothing but the machine.

Below ₹1,500, almost anything sold as ‘leather’ is PU or bonded — a plastic film on a fabric backing.

₹1,500–3,000 buys split or corrected-grain hide with a heavy coating. It is real leather, but it will not patina.

₹3,000–8,000 is where full hides and hand-finishing start. Ours run ₹2,250 to ₹9,900.

₹10,000–25,000 is largely brand. The leather is rarely better than the band below it.

Honestly: leather is not a drop case. What a good bag prevents is the everyday damage — scuffs, scratches from keys and chargers, a bag corner catching a doorframe.

Every bag is lined; the Sonar and the Barmer sleeve in velvet, the rest in canvas or cotton-blend, so nothing rough touches the chassis. The Barmer closes with hidden magnetic snaps rather than metal hardware, specifically so nothing can scratch an aluminium lid or a glass screen.