“Travelling
excites me!” This is that one feeling
that brings a lot of people together, together at Kunzum. Kunzum is a world created especially for
travel enthusiasts. It is a place where travelers from around every corner can
meet and exchange their experiences. They can tell people how they explored a
beautiful city and talk about its charm and magnificence. It has that soothing
environment which helps people make new friends and even future travel
partners, over a cup of coffee which is nearly free! Yes, another exciting
feature about Kunzum is that you get to have coffee and cookies for the money
of your choice. There is this vintage
box in which you just drop in whatever money you wish to give them for the
yummy chocolate cookies they serve you. Amused, aren't you? Well, there is a
lot more.
Kunzum is one of
its kind cafe currently running only in Hauz Khas Village, only in Delhi, the
only cafe in India! Visitors get to record their experiences in the scrapbooks
available at the cafe or writing interesting lines on the spoons and pinning
them up on the pin boards. Kunzum provides its visitors with a well maintained
library containing travel books which can be relied upon for guides and
travelogues. All of this in a place with ‘moodhas’ to sit and read is surely a
delight to us crazy, book freaks! You can bring in your own piece of writing
and spend hours at the place wandering in your thoughts and creating a new
‘Sherlock Holmes’. Visitors at the café are lured by the amazing photographs
displayed at the walls. These pictures are a master piece of the owner and
creator of Kunzum, Mr Ajay Jain.
It is often said
that random thoughts and ideas create a master piece. Indeed, it is to be
believed once you have been to Kunzum. Kunzum Travel café was inaugurated in
2007, as I mentioned earlier, with no idea of its survival among others and
since then has gained a lot of popularity among youth. Usually students visit
Kunzum and have a time of their own discussing issues or at times just
relaxing. It has in recent times become a platform for conducting discussions
and conferences. People from different spaces of life come here and add to the
diversity in the place. To add on to the excitement, Kunzum also organizes film
screenings twice a week, once in collaboration with Magic Lantern Films
Society. What a delight to all the movie
buffs! It further provides with opportunities to attend interactive talks and
workshops by travellers, photographers, writers and other relevant
personalities or the luxury time to simply sit back and
enjoy musicians jam around.
Kunzum has become
the ‘It’ place for the youth and is usually always blooming with people sitting
with coffee mugs and reading books, or maybe the ones like me, just talking!
P.S. Yes! I've been going to Kunzum for a year now..the reason for this post is a friend who hadn't even heard of it!
