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He was a principal of the Goa College of Art, a post he held from 1977 to 1987. Pai was a recipient of several awards, including India's third highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India. [12] Mario Miranda (1926–2011), famous for his cartoons in The Illustrated Weekly of India; Padma Vibushan awardee [13]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Lists of people from Goa" The following 10 pages are in this category, out ...
Goans (Romi Konkani: Goenkar, Portuguese: Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese, Austro-Asiatic ethnic and/or linguistic ancestries.
Goa was the first place in Asia to have a printing press, which was brought by the Jesuits in 1556. [1] Nearly all of Goan literature before that time is known to have been destroyed by the Portuguese during the imposition of Inquisition. Goa's Portuguese colonial rulers can hardly
Father Thomas Stephens, an English Jesuit living in Goa, "wrote the first Konkani grammar book and an epic 11,000-line Marathi poem, now regarded as a classic." [1]Eunice de Souza, herself a prominent poet in English, writes: [2] "Joseph Furtado, who wrote in English and in Portuguese was one of the first poets to use what we now call “Indian English.” “Fortune teller, memsahib!/Tell ...
This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa. It includes poets , novelists , children's writers , essayists , and scholars , listed by country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Lists of people from Goa (10 P) + Women from Goa (1 C) G. Goan Catholics ...
This is a list of fiction writers from the region of Goa, a former Portuguese colony on the west coast of India, and writers from the Goan diaspora. Goans have written in as many as 13 different languages, according to critic Peter Nazareth .