#Opinion In the sleepy village of Morjim in North Goa, not far from the tide-churned beaches that have long lost their charm to commercial noise, an old rice mill has been given a new life. One that doesn’t erase its history but tunes it to a different key. Architect Raya Shankhwalker, known for his deep sensitivity to place and memory, has transformed the abandoned structure into a jazz bar. The decision seems improbable at first glance — a rice mill and jazz, agriculture and improvisation, tradition and syncopation, but walk into The Rice Mill on any given evening, and it all begins to make sense.
The jazz played here is not a revival act. It is living music in a living space, grounded in history but not limited by it. That’s what Raya Shankhwalker has done at The Rice Mill. He has given Goa not a monument, but a movement. He has taken a forgotten structure and filled it with music that remembers. It is hard not to think of La La Land. The bar leaves an ache in you of a fleeting strange beautiful sadness. If you visit, you will want to cling to it.
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By Treya(@treyasinha )
A lone fisherman sets out to bring home a fresh catch for lunch in his tiny canoe carved out from a single tree trunk. A sight that gets rarer by the day as traditional fishing and boat making is fading away.
