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O Heraldo was established as the first daily Portuguese newspaper on 21 May 1900 by Aleixo Clemente Messias Gomes in Goa. [2] After a ten-year period in Lisbon, Messias Gomes undertook major expansions and modernisations of the paper's operations in 1919. [3]
When Ram Manohar Lohia visited Goa in June 1946, Jorge visited Lohia at the home of Julião Menezes and published the news of Lohia's arrival on the O Heraldo newspaper on 12 June. This triggered the civil disobedience movement that is today known as Goa Revolution Day. [3] Later, Jorge went to visit Lohia in Bombay, accompanied by Purushottam ...
Miranda also introduced Alexyz and Erasmo de Sequeira, who was responsible for the operations of the Goan newspaper, Goa Monitor. Alexyz later joined the West Coast Times in Margao and subsequently became the inaugural cartoonist for the Goan newspaper O Heraldo newspaper during the 1980s. [5]
An old Portuguese newspaper A Aurora de Goa stored at the Central Library.. Over the years, the media has changed dramatically from its early 20th century beginnings as a battlefield for influential lobbies within the local Catholic society (including caste-based elites, [3] or politically divided groups) which were largely controlled by influential and educated local elites.
Vaman Balkrishna Naique Prataprao Sardesai (5 May 1923 – 6 May 1994) was an Indian poet, freedom fighter and diplomat from Goa.Along with Libia Lobo Sardesai, whom he later married, he ran an underground radio station, Voice of Freedom, that transmitted across Portuguese Goa from 1955 to 1961, advocating the cause of the Goan independence movement.
Orquestra Sinfonica de Goa. Founded in 1952. Goa, which sits on the Arabian Sea in southwest India and is the nation's smallest state, was a territory of Portugal from 1510 to 1961. While its official language is the Konkani language, until 1961, most Goans were educated in Portuguese. Today, many Goans are Catholic, speak Portuguese and have ...
The news of Lohia's arrest spread throughout India. Mahatma Gandhi then wrote to the Portuguese Governor-General, stating that "in free India Goa can not be allowed to exist as a separate entity in opposition to the laws of the free state." [6] Menezes and Lohia continued their nationalistic efforts after this incident. [7]
Leopoldo da Gama, Goan journalist and founder of the weekly Portuguese newspaper "A Convicção". [5] Manohar Rai Sardesai, Konkani and French novelist and poet. [5] Maria Aurora Couto, writer, academic and literary critic with books including Graham Greene: On the Frontier, Politics and Religion in the Novels, and Goa: A Daughter's Story. [139]