When model Lakshmi Menon goes home, after a long stint at work, she really does leave the office—or in this case, the location—behind. Her home, which she shares with her long-term partner, Prabuddha Dasgupta, is on a Goan hillside, at least two flights and sometimes two days away from New York, Milan and Paris, where Menon makes her living. Their home is a low-slung cottage in a compound of four such residences, surrounded by coconut palms and bougainvillea. A Weimaraner named Jane lounges on the veranda. The only sounds are the squawking chatter of brilliantly colored birds. “I love my life here,” says Menon, who finds it “impossible to live in cities.”
Menon and Dadgupta moved to Goa three years ago from Bangalore. That is where Menon (who was born in Kerala and attended university) met Dasgupta, a photographer originally from Delhi. There’s something intensely modern and wonderfully worldly about this couple, and Goa—with its Portuguese-colonial past, its relative openness, and its multicultural bohemian vibe—seems a perfect fit. They love the beach—“I hate being in a landlocked place,” says Menon—and spend their very few lazy days at La Plage on Aswem Beach.
—Sally Singer
Photo: Mikael Jansson
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