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Ajay Jain

@ajayjain

Author / Photographer / Traveller. Redesigning Kunzum as bookshops - a community where writers, readers & artists meet over coffee!

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Let’s gift the young ones something to cherish: A Kunzum BOOK BEES membership. Where they come together as a community to learn and be entertained. Through reading, events and workshops. For books, art, theatre, music, writing and more. Members get special offers on purchases,

Let’s gift the young ones something to cherish: A Kunzum BOOK BEES membership.

Where they come together as a community to learn and be entertained. Through reading, events and workshops. For books, art, theatre, music, writing and more. Members get special offers on purchases,
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SADLY.... the @Kuznum Vasant Vihar store in finally shutting down. This is the last week! We are thus liquidating stocks - pick books at cost price. The picture shows the first customers at the store: they came in the evening before the store officially opened.

SADLY.... the @Kuznum Vasant Vihar store in finally shutting down. This is the last week!

We are thus liquidating stocks - pick books at cost price.

The picture shows the first customers at the store: they came in the evening before the store officially opened.
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Spaces like @Kunzum are crucial cultural stabilisers. Those who experience Kunzum often go back questioning their commitment to art. And are reminded of the transformative power of real stories, shared spaces, and human connection. More at go.kunzum.com/greatminds

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Sometimes you have to let go to build something stronger. Hence the decision to close @Kunzum's Vasant Vihar store. So we can focus on the flagship in GK2, with the widest curation of books in the country. Where the community comes together for the love of reading and culture.

Sometimes you have to let go to build something stronger. Hence the decision to close @Kunzum's Vasant Vihar store. So we can focus on the flagship in GK2, with the widest curation of books in the country. Where the community comes together for the love of  reading and culture.
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A thousand bookshops can thrive in India. And rather than competition eating into each other’s sales, the market will expand exponentially for everyone to attract enough business. Because storefronts displaying books draw people in, the curiosity leading to not only readers

A thousand bookshops can thrive in India. And rather than competition eating into each other’s sales, the market will expand exponentially for everyone to attract enough business. Because storefronts displaying books draw people in, the curiosity leading to not only readers
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If culture was always subject to market forces, our world would have been deprived of inspiring paintings, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, theatre, films and literature. It was the patronage – of royalty, elected representatives and individuals – over time that saw art

If culture was always subject to market forces, our world would have been deprived of inspiring paintings, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, theatre, films and literature.

It was the patronage – of royalty, elected representatives and individuals – over time that saw art
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The (last) weekend for Kunzum's Vasant Vihar store is upon us. Come over - and feast on books being given away at cost price. There would rarely be a better time to stock up for months - or years - of reading. A big thank you to all of you for your love and support :)

The (last) weekend for Kunzum's Vasant Vihar store is upon us. Come over - and feast on books being given away at cost price. There would rarely be a better time to stock up for months - or years - of reading.

A big thank you to all of you for your love and support :)
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I am headed to Kunzum Vasant Vihar. Will be there approximately 4-7 pm today. Come over if free! :) P.S. That's photos taken in the store earlier.

I am headed to Kunzum Vasant Vihar. Will be there approximately 4-7 pm today. Come over if free! :)

P.S. That's photos taken in the store earlier.
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The silver screen can be a metaphor for the effects of excess technology, social media, and ‘doomscrolling’ finally kicking in. ‘Brain rot’ has compromised the creative act. Why else would there be a sudden love for re-releases of older movies? Under the garb of remastering worn

The silver screen can be a metaphor for the effects of excess technology, social media, and ‘doomscrolling’ finally kicking in. ‘Brain rot’ has compromised the creative act.

Why else would there be a sudden love for re-releases of older movies? Under the garb of remastering worn
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Addressing students and faculty of Shoolini University - I deliver this lecture annually. We are also joining hands to introduce reading (books, printed) as a part of the curriculum. More details to be shared in a few days. :)

Addressing students and faculty of <a href="/ShooliniUniv/">Shoolini University</a> - I deliver this lecture annually.

We are also joining hands to introduce reading (books, printed) as a part of the curriculum. More details to be shared in a few days. :)
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Why does bad news always trump the good? The JCB Prize for Literature has been discontinued from this year onwards for reasons not clear. With it is also gone the award of Rs. 25 lakhs (the richest purse in India) for the winner. But here’s the thing: it seems more people (and

Why does bad news always trump the good?

The JCB Prize for Literature has been discontinued from this year onwards for reasons not clear. With it is also gone the award of Rs. 25 lakhs (the richest purse in India) for the winner. But here’s the thing: it seems more people (and
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Kunzum is coming out stronger than ever before. The recent restructuring should not indicate otherwise. For one, we want to focus on being a single store outlet – in GK2, New Delhi. Built over four floors, spanning 10,000 sq. feet, we have designed it as a destination in itself.

Kunzum is coming out stronger than ever before. The recent restructuring should not indicate otherwise.

For one, we want to focus on being a single store outlet – in GK2, New Delhi. Built over four floors, spanning 10,000 sq. feet, we have designed it as a destination in itself.
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Writing my school memoir has been a time of reflection, of comparing the ‘then’ with the ‘now.’ Back then, the classroom had only four teaching and learning tools: a screechy blackboard, dusty chalks, notebooks (called copies) that would get moist with our sweat in the summers,

Writing my school memoir has been a time of reflection, of comparing the ‘then’ with the ‘now.’

Back then, the classroom had only four teaching and learning tools: a screechy blackboard, dusty chalks, notebooks (called copies) that would get moist with our sweat in the summers,
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You have one more weekend to stock up on books from Kunzum Vasant Vihar at absolutely GIVEAWAY PRICES!! It is a SALE like no other. The next tenants are taking a little longer to take over. More books have also been added since last weekend to give you a wider choice.

You have one more weekend to stock up on books from Kunzum Vasant Vihar at absolutely GIVEAWAY PRICES!! It is a SALE like no other.

The next tenants are taking a little longer to take over. More books have also been added since last weekend to give you a wider choice.
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SUNDAY SPECIAL ... Meet Shalini Mullick, winner - IGF Archer Amish Award for Storytellers with prize purse of $25,000. In conversation with Shibani Sethi. Kunzum GK2, 6 pm. Kunzum Vasant Vihar moving out starts soon - last chance to pick books at absolutely cost price!

SUNDAY SPECIAL ...

Meet Shalini Mullick, winner - IGF Archer Amish Award for Storytellers with prize purse of $25,000. In conversation with Shibani Sethi.

Kunzum GK2, 6 pm.  Kunzum Vasant Vihar moving out starts soon - last chance to pick books at absolutely cost price!
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I took up full time travel writing and photography in 2007. How I got there (pun intended) is a tale for another day. So everyone asked me: How will you make a living? Do you have a business plan? I said, no. Let it be a journey (another pun) in itself. If I figure the

I took up full time travel writing and photography in 2007. How I got there (pun intended) is a tale for another day.

So everyone asked me: How will you make a living? Do you have a business plan?

I said, no. Let it be a journey (another pun) in itself. If I figure the