Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: Journalist, freedom activist and writer, Padma Shir Lambert Mascarenhas passed away today morning at the age of 106.
He started his career as a journalist in the Morning Standard at Mumbai.[1] He worked as a sub-editor at the Bombay Sentinel, under editor B. G. Horniman.[7] Mascarenhas later joined the Onlooker as an assistant-editor. He later edited the Goan Tribune, which espoused the cause of Goa’s liberation. Upon his return to liberated Goa in 1961, he joined as the editor of The Navhind Times and later established and edited Goa Today.
Lambert Mascarenhas also contributed to India’s freedom movement. He authored the Goan Tribune, which was dedicated to the cause of Goa’s liberation.[While at the Goan Tribune, he wrote numerous articles against the Portuguese colonial regime in Goa and caught the attention of both Indian leaders as well as the Portuguese regime. While on a visit to Goa, he was arrested and jailed by the Portuguese for his articles. He was later released on bail and expelled from Goa.
