The act of dislodging the Portuguese language was cultural genocide conducted
by the current colonialists. What happened was that the bharats could not rule
without a language. Goa ka lok Hindi nahin hai, therefore the closest language
was to introduce english formally into Goa. Therefore we ha
BOOK EXTRACT
Poetry, Politics, and Newspapers in Portuguese: Laxmanrao
Sardessai and Goa in the 1960s
D.A. Smith
In 1964, after more than 30 years of writing short stories in
Marathi, Laxmanrao Sardessai did something that, on the face
of it, was quite unexpected. The 60-year-old Goan writer and
