"lamakaan is open" is not just a password

I have been spending my weekend evenings at lamakaan, hyderabad.

Its a social home, where anyone can enter, grab a chair, and start chatting with anyone one feels like. I happen to be there my mistake and I was amazed by the concept, a new definition of openness.

Lamakaan is open

Being open is not just limited to internet, businesses, ideas; i realized when I heard that Lamakaan is a home donated by someone for the purpose of socializing; openness is a way of living.


This place is occupied with people of varied genre.

• Start ups / Entrepreneurs (Free office space for them, free wifi)
• Actors (chance to act in plays that happen in lamakaan, build audience and fans)
• Students (Group studies, at least thats what they say at home)
• Theater artists (opportunities to perform, play almost every weekend)
• Smokers (smokers joint)
• Painters (grab a corner and start with whatever)
• Poets (u ll find  them lost under some tree)
• Singers (yes, its a good place for them. They just start singing, and number of people that gather around them becomes a measure of how good they sing)
• Writers (they get to talk to different people, from where begins a story)
• Journalists (usually conversing over some intellectual topics)

and so on!!

I may not belong to any of the above, but i go there to enjoy the company of such people and have a cup of awesome tea with samosas.

Kitchen at Lamakaan

Yes, there is this stall (like a home kitchen, but a little overpriced) from where this place is funded (and the maintenance). But great taste and nice service.

When I asked a young chap who was having a smoke around the corner,
"Dude, whats the password for wifi here". before he could answer, a street dog passed between us into the hall where people were busy doing what they usually do!!!!
He said, "lamakaan is open"

We both smiled!