Progress in Old Panjim

Most of the old Portuguese buildings in old Panjim have the same sort of businesses and homes that fill the rest of the city. Tailors, offices, tiny general stores, cheap thali restaurants, and sellers of rubber stamps, shoes, housewares and tourist trinkets.

But a few of the buildings have hip new boutiques and art galleries -- with a focus on young Indian designers.

Mother May I?
Maggie doesn't get the outfit she wanted (at least not for the next few years).
Check out those cool light fixtures.


The forward-thinking family who runs the Panjim Inn (and its' high design cousin The Panjim Peoples) obviously have a great sense of how important it is to save this old Portuguese neighborhood. Here they are building a new structure in the old style. It will be a new 15-room inn around the corner from their other properties.