Breakfast this morning was at the tiny Café Shubham in the beautiful coastal village of Morjim in north Goa.
Bhaji-Pão-Chao: Rs 14 ($0.28).
Taste, Service & Warmth: Priceless.
Chao (tea) served in faceted glass
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A leisurely start - Vishnu Shetgaonkar of Morjim
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Dipping 'kanknam' (crisp bangles) in chao - Anthony Fernandes
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My breakfast
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Upon hearing a great piece of music, my music guru Ramashreya Jha “Ramrang” was fond of quoting Kabir:
mann mast hua tab kyon bole?
(Why open your mouth when the mind is filled with bliss?)
I am often at a loss for words in the midst of Iceland‘s landscape and Kabir serves me well there.
Mountain Hestur and farm Eyri on Seyðisfjörður in the Westfjords
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Wide angle
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Note: This is Seyðisfjörður in the Westfjords, not to be confused with the more well-known fjord and village of the same name in the Eastfjords on the other side of the island.
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Taken yesterday at the thread ceremony of my nephew Yash. The Facebook generation comes of age. (Point driven home subtly by the placement of a toy made by a company named after a fruit.)
My nephew Yash following his thread ceremony
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How about the officiating priest(s)? Did they tweet during the ceremony?
p.s. Here in Madras, the priests I know have graduated to androids and iPads.
Very sweet and innocent looking face a great photo.
A felicitous composition!
This installment of Panjim Promenade puts the spotlight on Tobacco Square (Largo do Estanco in Portuguese).
The Tobacco Square is bounded by the General Post Office, the São Tomé chapel and Casa da Moeda. What is now the General Post Office originally started out as a depot for trading tobacco whence the name of the Square. The premises then went on to serve as the Police Headquarters for some time. Finally it became the centre of operations of the city’s postal services (Repartição dos Correios).
Within the perimeter of the Tobacco Square was the notorious pillory. It was here that the Portuguese executed the plotters of the Pinto Conspiracy.
Panjim was conceived by Portuguese designers and that vision was brought to fruition by Goa‘s master craftsmen and masons. What emerged over time was a beautiful city unlike any other in India, pleasing to the eye, with the whole in harmony with its parts. That Panjim is now being dismantled and rubbished (read Indianized), the beauty of the old structures supplanted with ugly, low-quality concrete ratholes. It is as if a different species has taken over.
This image of the General Post Office was shot from the location of the aforementioned pillory.
General Post Office, Panjim
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Around 1900
(From: Postais Antigos do Estado da Portuguese Índia)
Capela de São Tomé was built in 1849 and received a substantial makeover in 1902.
Capela de São Tomé and Hugo Menezes house (19th C)
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São Tomé chapel c. 1910
© Souza & Paul (Central Library Archives)
Morning mass at São Tomé
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Velho building (19th C)
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Torre de Belém (1920s) and Hotel Imperial (1940s)
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All the posts in the Panjim Promenade series may be accessed here.
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Splendid range in this set. Thanks for sharing the old images.
Morning mass at São Tomé: Particularly like the cut-out character quality of the priest, those in attendance, Mary and the saints!
In the lovely village of Seyðisfjörður in the Eastfjords of Iceland.
In Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland
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by Rajan P. Parrikar
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Thanks RP. Also priceless, is the peaceful existence (hopefully) without the muscle of the Ruskies. The pics of the Pao and the Bhaji ‘derrepente’ made me hungry (:-)