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What does Onam smell like? Feat Secret Alchemist
26/08/2026

What does Onam smell like? Feat Secret Alchemist

2nd Stop: Chennai An afternoon with a community that cares about craft and clean perfumery / with Secret Alchemist Ankit...
31/07/2026

2nd Stop: Chennai

An afternoon with a community that cares about craft and clean perfumery / with Secret Alchemist Ankita Thadani Akash Valia

Safan doing what he does best

Did you say sandalwood?

Chennai autos and the charm.

Nostalgia?

Krithi / don’t talk to her when she is on this mode!

Show it…

Store the nostalgia!

The A Team!

Let’s smell?

The faces that showed up.

Deets.

Explore.

Sensorial

The alchemist Ankita Thadani

The community.

Indulgence

Indulgence

And more indulgence

Thank you Chennai 🌼

An afternoon with a community that appreciates craft and clean perfumery with Secret Alchemist Ankita Thadani Thank you ...
31/07/2026

An afternoon with a community that appreciates craft and clean perfumery with Secret Alchemist Ankita Thadani

Thank you Chennai🌼

04/07/2026

The indē wild Champi Kathe continues in Bengaluru, Sunday 5th July at Sabha.

Join the waitlist now🌼

Read the caption carefully: In the frame, one of our OG barbers from Hajam Culture - Shamsher Bhai.Why we called this IP...
28/06/2026

Read the caption carefully:
In the frame, one of our OG barbers from Hajam Culture - Shamsher Bhai.
Why we called this IP Hajam Culture?

When we started this practice at The Commons and got some traction, we hope to get more with the community we are growing and thriving with. A few questioned why we use a slur term?

We would like start answering this by going that to the Rohini for a bit- Hajam is a Persian word. It means nothing but BARBER. It travelled into the subcontinent centuries ago and became the professional title of an entire community of people whose craft held neighbourhoods together. The straight razor. The hot towel. The hair cuts without any manual. The conversation that had no hierarchy, no agenda, no caste.

And then the caste system did what it always does. It took a profession and used it to diminish the people who practised it. The word that belonged to a community of skilled, dignified craftspeople was turned into something people threw at each other to put others down. In Karnataka, the barber community has spent decades being stigmatised by the very name of their own craft.
But here is the thing. The slur is your perspective. For us it is the craft and the profession. The professional title of people who showed up every day, knew everyone’s name and held the neighbourhood together without ever being given enough credit for it.

Calling this IP anything else would have been doing a disservice to that community. We are not using this word in spite of its history. We are using it because of it.
Hajam Culture at The Commons is our small homage to every barber bhai who built this culture.
We will soon update on JULY’S HAJJAM schedule 💈💇💇‍♂️
Until then - let’s keep adding value to what frames the subculture of today’s ecosystem at The Commons. Ajji House by Subko, Bangalore. Distinctively Uncommon.

Complex relationship between space and people = inspiration for the crew
04/06/2026

Complex relationship between space and people = inspiration for the crew

Complex relationship between space and people = Inspiration
04/06/2026

Complex relationship between space and people = Inspiration

Senses and conversations.A Bangalore landing sensorial experience with our community for .alchemist
14/05/2026

Senses and conversations.

A Bangalore landing sensorial experience with our community for .alchemist

10/04/2026

Locate EP 1 / part 2

True story: we sent this video as a pitch to SUPERYOU bringing in “super” as culture but ended up being the first chapter for Locate.

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