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	\| death_place = [[Dona Paula]], [[Goa]], [[India]]		\| death_place = [[Dona Paula]], [[Goa]], [[India]]
	\| education = [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]]<ref name="goanobserver2004">{{cite web \|last1=Narayan \|first1=Tara \|title=Goans must be disciplined and hate nobody: A dialogue with Lambert Mascarenhas \|url=http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/11-9-2004/first_person.htm \|website=Independent Goa Observer \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813080054/http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/11-9-2004/first_person.htm \|archive-date=13 August 2014 \|date=11 September 2004 \|url-status=usurped}}<!--~~http~~://archive.today/~~2014.06.19-190142~~/http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/11-9-2004/first_person.htm--></ref>		\| education = [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]]<ref name="goanobserver2004">{{cite web \|last1=Narayan \|first1=Tara \|title=Goans must be disciplined and hate nobody: A dialogue with Lambert Mascarenhas \|url=http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/11-9-2004/first_person.htm \|website=Independent Goa Observer \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813080054/http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/11-9-2004/first_person.htm \|archive-date=13 August 2014 \|date=11 September 2004 \|url-status=usurped}}<!--https://archive.today/20140619190142/http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/11-9-2004/first_person.htm--></ref>
	\| occupation = {{hlist\|Writer\|journalist\|independence activist}}		\| occupation = {{hlist\|Writer\|journalist\|independence activist}}
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	==Personal life==		==Personal life==

	Mascarenhas was born in [[Colva]], [[Portuguese India]], but his early education took place in Pune and later at the [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]].<ref name="goanobserver2004"/> He was married to Dr. Jolly Mascarenhas.<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/lambert-mascarenhas-still-sorrowing-his-land \| title=Lambert Mascarenhas: Still sorrowing for his land \| date=7 October 2012 \| work=Panorama / The Navhind Times \| access-date=26 January 2019 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011084252/http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/lambert-mascarenhas-still-sorrowing-his-land \| archive-date=11 October 2012 }}</ref><ref name="goanobserver2004"/> He had four children.<ref name="vascowatchonline1">{{cite web\|url=http://vascowatchonline.com/news/people/a-daughter-speaks-nayantara-lima-leitao/ \|title=A Daughter Speaks – Nayantara Lima Leitao \|publisher=Vasco Watch Online \|date=24 November 2014 \|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> He had taken a vow that he would marry only after the [[liberation of Goa]] from colonial [[Portugal\|Portuguese]] rule.<ref name="vascowatchonline1"/><ref name="goanobserver2004"/> Hence, he married on 29 December 1961, exactly ten days after Goa's liberation by India on 19 December 1961.<ref name="vascowatchonline1"/>		Mascarenhas was born in [[Colva]], [[Portuguese India]], but his early education took place in Pune and later at the [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]].<ref name="goanobserver2004"/> He was married to Dr. Jolly Mascarenhas.<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/lambert-mascarenhas-still-sorrowing-his-land \| title=Lambert Mascarenhas: Still sorrowing for his land \| date=7 October 2012 \| work=Panorama / The Navhind Times \| access-date=26 January 2019 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011084252/http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/lambert-mascarenhas-still-sorrowing-his-land \| archive-date=11 October 2012 }}</ref><ref name="goanobserver2004"/> He had four children.<ref name="vascowatchonline1">{{cite web\|url=http://vascowatchonline.com/news/people/a-daughter-speaks-nayantara-lima-leitao/ \|title=A Daughter Speaks – Nayantara Lima Leitao \|publisher=Vasco Watch Online \|date=24 November 2014 \|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> He had taken a vow that he would marry only after the [[liberation of Goa]] from colonial [[Portugal\|Portuguese]] rule.<ref name="vascowatchonline1"/><ref name="goanobserver2004"/> Hence, he married on 29 December 1961, exactly ten days after Goa's liberation by India on 19 December 1961.<ref name="vascowatchonline1"/>

	Mascarenhas died on 27 June 2021 at the age of 106.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://goemkarponn.com/renowned-journalist-and-padma-shri-lambert-mascarenhas-no-more/ \|title=Renowned journalist and Padma Shri Lambert Mascarenhas no more \|access-date=1 July 2021 \|work=The Goemkarponn \|date=27 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|~~last1=Jun 28\|first1~~=Lisa Monteiro ~~/ TNN / Updated~~\|~~last2~~=2021~~\|last3=Ist\|first3=06:44~~\|title=Freedom fighter and journalist, Lambert Mascarenhas dies at 106 {{!}} Goa News - Times of India\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/lambert-mascarenhas-freedom-fighter-and-journalist-dies-at-106/articleshow/83904391.cms\|access-date=2021-07-02\|website=The Times of India\|language=en}}</ref>		Mascarenhas died on 27 June 2021 at the age of 106.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://goemkarponn.com/renowned-journalist-and-padma-shri-lambert-mascarenhas-no-more/ \|title=Renowned journalist and Padma Shri Lambert Mascarenhas no more \|access-date=1 July 2021 \|work=The Goemkarponn \|date=27 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|author=Lisa Monteiro\|date=Jun 28, 2021\|title=Freedom fighter and journalist, Lambert Mascarenhas dies at 106 {{!}} Goa News - Times of India\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/lambert-mascarenhas-freedom-fighter-and-journalist-dies-at-106/articleshow/83904391.cms\|access-date=2021-07-02\|website=The Times of India\|language=en}}</ref>

	==Journalism==		==Journalism==
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	==Books==		==Books==
	Mascarenhas authored several books, including the novel ''Sorrowing Lies My Land'', published in 1955.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Rodrigues\|first=Jonathan\|date=14 September 2014\|title=The musings, moods & memories of Goa's jolly good fellow\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-musings-moods-memories-of-goas-jolly-good-fellow/articleshow/42399792.cms~~\|url-status=live~~\|access-date=2021-07-02\|website=The Times of India\|language=en-IN}}</ref> This work of fiction was based in the anti-Portuguese movement launched by the Indian politician [[Rammanohar Lohia]] ~~in Margão in 1946~~.<ref>{{~~cite journal~~ \|~~last1~~=~~Da Costa~~ \|~~first1~~=~~Sonia Fernandes~~ \|~~title~~=~~The Political Novels of Lambert Mascarenhas~~ \|~~journal~~=~~International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities~~ \|date=~~2015~~ \|~~volume~~=II \|~~issue~~=X \|pages=~~534–545~~ \|~~url~~=~~https://ijellh.com/OJS/index.php~~/~~OJS/article/view/6256/5261~~ \|~~format~~=~~PDF~~ \|~~issn~~=~~2321-7065~~}}</ref>		Mascarenhas authored several books, including the novel ''Sorrowing Lies My Land'', published in 1955.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Rodrigues\|first=Jonathan\|date=14 September 2014\|title=The musings, moods & memories of Goa's jolly good fellow\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-musings-moods-memories-of-goas-jolly-good-fellow/articleshow/42399792.cms\|access-date=2021-07-02\|website=The Times of India\|language=en-IN}}</ref> This work of fiction was based in the anti-Portuguese movement launched by the Indian politician [[Rammanohar Lohia]].<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Passos\|first=Joana\|url=\|title=Literatura goesa em português nos séculos XIX e XX : perspetivas pós-coloniais e revisão crítica\|date=2012\|publisher=Edições Húmus\|isbn=978-989-8549-40-2\|edition=1st\|location=Ribeirão\|pages=93\|hdl=1822/35179\|oclc=875314124\|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

	Mascarenhas' other works include ''The First City'', ''In the Womb of Saudade'', ''The Greater Tragedy'' and ''Heartbreak Passage''.<ref name="indiatimes1"/>		Mascarenhas' other works include ''The First City'', ''In the Womb of Saudade'', ''The Greater Tragedy'' and ''Heartbreak Passage''.<ref name="indiatimes1"/>
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	Mascarenhas was awarded the Laxmidas Borkar Memorial Award for journalism for 2004.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/27/stories/2005102706790400.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523025340/http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/27/stories/2005102706790400.htm \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=23 May 2006 \|title=Karnataka News : Briefly \|date=27 October 2005 \|newspaper=[[The Hindu]] \|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> He was also awarded [[Goa]]'s highest civilian award, the ''[[Gomant Vibhushan]]''.<ref name="indiatimes1"/><ref name="webindia2"/><ref name="vascowatchonline1"/>		Mascarenhas was awarded the Laxmidas Borkar Memorial Award for journalism for 2004.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/27/stories/2005102706790400.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523025340/http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/27/stories/2005102706790400.htm \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=23 May 2006 \|title=Karnataka News : Briefly \|date=27 October 2005 \|newspaper=[[The Hindu]] \|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> He was also awarded [[Goa]]'s highest civilian award, the ''[[Gomant Vibhushan]]''.<ref name="indiatimes1"/><ref name="webindia2"/><ref name="vascowatchonline1"/>
	He was awarded [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015.<ref name=pdma>{{cite web\|title=Padma Awards 2015 \|archive-url=https://~~www~~.~~webcitation~~.org/~~6VrWjEuo3?url=~~http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 \|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 \|publisher=Press Information Bureau \|access-date=25 January 2015 \|archive-date=26 January 2015 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>		He was awarded [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015.<ref name=pdma>{{cite web\|title=Padma Awards 2015 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128022143/http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 \|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 \|publisher=Press Information Bureau \|access-date=25 January 2015 \|archive-date=28 January 2015 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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{{Short description|Indian journalist, activist, and writer}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox writer 
| name = Lambert Mascarenhas
| native_name = लॅम्बर्ट मास्कारेन्हस
| native_name_lang = gom
| image = The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Shri Award to Shri Lambert Mascarenhas, at a Civil Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on April 08, 2015.jpg
| alt = The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, presenting the Padma Shri Award to Shri Lambert Mascarenhas in 2015
| imagesize =
| caption = Mascarenhas receiving the Padma Shri in 2015
| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|9|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Colva]], [[Portuguese India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|6|27|1914|9|17|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Dona Paula]], [[Goa]], [[India]]
| education = [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]]<ref name="goanobserver2004">{{cite web |last1=Narayan |first1=Tara |title=Goans must be disciplined and hate nobody: A dialogue with Lambert Mascarenhas |url=http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/11-9-2004/first_person.htm |website=Independent Goa Observer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813080054/http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/11-9-2004/first_person.htm |archive-date=13 August 2014 |date=11 September 2004 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>
| occupation = {{hlist|Writer|journalist|independence activist}}
| genre =
| website =
| notableworks = ''Sorrowing Lies My Land''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.colaco.net/1/sorrowing1.htm |title=Sorrowing lies my land - revisited |publisher=Colaco.net |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707073855/http://www.colaco.net/1/sorrowing1.htm |archive-date=7 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goanews.com/blogs_disp.php?bpid=418 |title=Sorrowing Lies My Land |publisher=Goa News |access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>
}}

'''Lambert Mascarenhas''' ({{lang-gom|लॅम्बर्ट मास्कारेन्हस|script=deva}}, 17 September 1914 – 27 June 2021) was an Indian journalist, independence activist, and writer from [[Goa]]. His family hailed from the [[Goan Catholics|Goan Catholic]] community.

==Personal life==

Mascarenhas was born in [[Colva]], [[Portuguese India]], but his early education took place in Pune and later at the [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]].<ref name="goanobserver2004"/> He was married to Dr. Jolly Mascarenhas.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/lambert-mascarenhas-still-sorrowing-his-land | title=Lambert Mascarenhas: Still sorrowing for his land | date=7 October 2012 | work=Panorama / The Navhind Times | access-date=26 January 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011084252/http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/lambert-mascarenhas-still-sorrowing-his-land | archive-date=11 October 2012 }}</ref><ref name="goanobserver2004"/> He had four children.<ref name="vascowatchonline1">{{cite web|url=http://vascowatchonline.com/news/people/a-daughter-speaks-nayantara-lima-leitao/ |title=A Daughter Speaks – Nayantara Lima Leitao |publisher=Vasco Watch Online |date=24 November 2014 |access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> He had taken a vow that he would marry only after the [[liberation of Goa]] from colonial [[Portugal|Portuguese]] rule.<ref name="vascowatchonline1"/><ref name="goanobserver2004"/> Hence, he married on 29 December 1961, exactly ten days after Goa's liberation by India on 19 December 1961.<ref name="vascowatchonline1"/>

Mascarenhas died on 27 June 2021 at the age of 106.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://goemkarponn.com/renowned-journalist-and-padma-shri-lambert-mascarenhas-no-more/ |title=Renowned journalist and Padma Shri Lambert Mascarenhas no more |access-date=1 July 2021 |work=The Goemkarponn |date=27 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Jun 28|first1=Lisa Monteiro / TNN / Updated|last2=2021|last3=Ist|first3=06:44|title=Freedom fighter and journalist, Lambert Mascarenhas dies at 106 {{!}} Goa News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/lambert-mascarenhas-freedom-fighter-and-journalist-dies-at-106/articleshow/83904391.cms|access-date=2021-07-02|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

==Journalism==

Mascarenhas started his career as a journalist in the ''Morning Standard'' at [[Mumbai]].<ref name="goanobserver2004"/> He worked as a sub-editor at the ''Bombay Sentinel'', under editor [[B. G. Horniman]].<ref name="webindia2">{{cite web|url=http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20140529/2400756.html |title=Lambert Mascarenhas conferred 'Gomant Vibhushan' award |publisher=News.webindia123.com |date=29 May 2014 |access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> Mascarenhas later joined the ''Onlooker'' as an assistant editor. He later edited the ''Goan Tribune'', which espoused the cause of Goa's invasion by India. Upon his return to a liberated Goa in 1961, he joined as the editor of ''[[The Navhind Times]]'' and later established and edited ''[[Goa Today]]''.<ref name="webindia2"/>

==Contribution to the independence movement==

Mascarenhas also contributed to India's freedom movement.<ref name="indiatimes1">{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Lambert-Mascarenhas-to-get-Gomant-Vibushan/articleshow/35745378.cms |title=Lambert Mascarenhas to get Gomant Vibushan |work= Times of India |date=30 May 2014 |access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> He authored the ''Goan Tribune'', which was dedicated to the cause of [[Goa]]'s liberation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nri.goa.gov.in/freedom.html |title=NRI Commission of Goa |publisher=Nri.goa.gov.in |date=19 December 1961 |access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref name="vascowatchonline1"/> In Bombay, he joined the [[Goa Pradesh Congress Committee|National Congress (Goa)]].<ref>{{cite journal |editor1-last=Kunte |editor1-first=B. G. |title=National Congress (Goa) |journal=Goa Freedom Struggle Vis-A-Vis Maharashtra (1946-1960) |date=1978 |volume=8 |issue=1 |page=183 |url=https://archive.org/details/HindSwaraj.Source.VOL-08-PART-I/page/n191 |series=Source Material for a History of the Freedom Movement in India |publisher=Government Central Press Bombay}}</ref>

==Books==
Mascarenhas authored several books, including the novel ''Sorrowing Lies My Land'', published in 1955.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rodrigues|first=Jonathan|date=14 September 2014|title=The musings, moods & memories of Goa's jolly good fellow|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-musings-moods-memories-of-goas-jolly-good-fellow/articleshow/42399792.cms|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-02|website=The Times of India|language=en-IN}}</ref> This work of fiction was based in the anti-Portuguese movement launched by the Indian politician [[Rammanohar Lohia]] in Margão in 1946.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Da Costa |first1=Sonia Fernandes |title=The Political Novels of Lambert Mascarenhas |journal=International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities |date=2015 |volume=II |issue=X |pages=534–545 |url=https://ijellh.com/OJS/index.php/OJS/article/view/6256/5261 |format=PDF |issn=2321-7065}}</ref>

Mascarenhas' other works include ''The First City'', ''In the Womb of Saudade'', ''The Greater Tragedy'' and ''Heartbreak Passage''.<ref name="indiatimes1"/>

==Awards==

Mascarenhas was awarded the Laxmidas Borkar Memorial Award for journalism for 2004.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/27/stories/2005102706790400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523025340/http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/27/stories/2005102706790400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 May 2006 |title=Karnataka News : Briefly |date=27 October 2005 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> He was also awarded [[Goa]]'s highest civilian award, the ''[[Gomant Vibhushan]]''.<ref name="indiatimes1"/><ref name="webindia2"/><ref name="vascowatchonline1"/>
He was awarded [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015.<ref name=pdma>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards 2015 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6VrWjEuo3?url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 |publisher=Press Information Bureau |access-date=25 January 2015 |archive-date=26 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2011/03/francisco-correia-afonso-sorrowing-lies.html Review of ''Sorrowing Lies My Land'' by Francisco Correia-Afonso (in Portuguese)]

{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Literature & Education}}

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