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'''[[Doctor of Medicine|Dr.]] Pundalik Dattatreya Gaitonde''' (3 July 1913 – 13 November 1992) was a [[surgeon]] from [[Goa]] and an active participant in the [[Goa liberation movement]].<ref name="independent.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-pundlik-gaitonde-1564838.html|title=Obituary: Pundlik Gaitonde|date=21 December 1992|website=The Independent}}</ref> Along with Antonio Colaco, Gaitonde was nominated by the [[President of India]] to the [[3rd Lok Sabha]] in 1962<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/in.gazette.e.1962.241|title=Extraordinary Gazette of India, 1962, No. 241|first=Government of India|last=Directorate of Printing|date=20 June 1962|publisher=|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> following the incorporation of [[Goa, Daman and Diu]] into [[India]] on 19 December 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/LS-polls-Parties-play-the-usual-faith-cards/articleshow/4346947.cms|title=LS polls: Parties play the usual faith cards - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref>

==Early life==
Pundalik Gaitonde was born on 3 July 1913 to Dattatreya alias Mangesh Gaitonde and Anandibai at [[Borim]], [[Goa]] in [[Portuguese India]]. Pundalik Gaitonde's father Dattatreya hailed from [[Palolem Beach|Palolem]] in [[Canacona]] while Anandibai hailed from [[Borim]]. Pundalik Gaitonde was the third among nine siblings. His father Datatreya was a local [[landlord]].<ref>{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=5 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref> His younger brother Nanda was also a participant in the [[Goa liberation movement]].<ref>http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/31750/16/16_appendices.pdf</ref>

Aged five, Pundalik was initiated into education and he attended a local school. Aged eleven, the [[Upanayana]] ritual was performed.<ref>{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=6 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref> Gaitonde pursued his higher education at the ''Escola Primaria de Canacona'' at [[Chaudi]], [[Canacona]].<ref>{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=7 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref>

Since there were no further opportunities for higher education in [[Canacona]], Gaitonde joined the ''A. J. de Almeida College'' school at [[Ponda, Goa|Ponda]] in [[Goa]] to pursue his first year of [[Lyceum]].<ref name="auto">{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=11 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref> It was at this school that Gaitonde befriended poet [[Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar]].<ref>{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=9 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref> During these years, Gaitonde mastered the [[Portuguese language]]. But since the ''A. J. de Almeida College'' did not have the facility to study the third year of [[Lyceum]], Gaitonde went to [[Margao]].<ref name="auto"/>

After successfully completing the course of [[Lyceum]], he joined the [[Lyceum]] at [[Panaji]]. Aged twenty, Gaitonde delivered a lecture on [[Albert Einstein]]'s [[Theory of relativity]]. This lecture was appreciated by many. Gaitonde also benefited from the various programmes organised by the ''União Académica'' in [[Panaji]].<ref name="auto"/> Thereafter, he attended the ''[[Goa Medical College|Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de (Nova) Goa]]'' to study medicine.<ref name="auto1">{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=12 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref> Gaitonde went to [[Portugal]] in order to pursue higher studies he medicine. He graduated in [[surgery]] from the Faculty of Medicine at the [[University of Lisbon (1911–2013)|Lisbon University]], where he was taught by [[António Egas Moniz]] (who went on to become a [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel laureate]] in [[List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine|1949]]) and Reynaldo dos Santos.<ref name="independent.co.uk"/> During the same period, Gaitonde started his independent research regarding [[cancer]].<ref name="auto1"/>

===Marriage===
After Gaitonde studied medicine and surgery, he started his practice of medicine in [[Portugal]]. He met a Portuguese young woman named Edila Brum Dutra de Andrade.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://correiodosacores.pt/NewsDetail/ArtMID/383/ArticleID/20420/Faialense-Edila-Gaintonde-merece-uma-distin231227o-nos-A231ores-e-em-Portugal|title = Faialense Edila Gaintonde merece uma distinção nos Açores e em Portugal}}</ref> Edila was born at the [[Faial Island]] of the [[Azores]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/Opinions/Thus-always-to-tyrants/167962|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502100806/https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/Opinions/Thus-always-to-tyrants/167962|archive-date=2 May 2021|title=Thus always to tyrants}}</ref> and had studied music at the National Conservatory of Lisbon.<ref>{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=13 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref> Pundalik and Edila decided to marry, but faced stiff opposition from their respective families. However, Pundalik's father later relented and granted permission. Pundalik and Edila married<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/bringing-alive-trials-triumphs-of-goans-under-the-portuguese/articleshow/13912708.cms|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210502094148/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/bringing-alive-trials-triumphs-of-goans-under-the-portuguese/articleshow/13912708.cms|archive-date = 2 May 2021|title = Edila Gaitonde: Bringing alive trials, triumphs of Goans under the Portuguese | Goa News - Times of India}}</ref> in [[Lisbon]] and spent their [[honeymoon]] at [[Peniche, Portugal|Peniche]].<ref>{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=15 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref>

The reason why Gaitonde selected [[Peniche, Portugal|Peniche]] as the honeymoon destination was that [[Peniche, Portugal|Peniche]] was the location of the prison-fort where several activists of the [[Goa Liberation Movement]] such as [[Tristão de Bragança Cunha]], [[Purushottam Kakodkar]], Dr. Ram Hegde, [[José Inácio Candido de Loyola]] and Laxmikant Prabhu Bhembre were imprisoned. These prisoners organised a celebration in honour of Pundalik and Edila. They hosted a meal for the newly-weds.<ref>{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=16 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref> A woman journalist from France was on a visit to the prison in order to meet [[Tristão de Bragança Cunha]]. When she questioned Pundalik Gaitonde about why he had selected [[Peniche, Portugal|Peniche]] as the destination for the honeymoon, Dr. Gaitonde replied, "Homage to sacrifice!"<ref>{{cite book|title=डॉ. पुंडलिक गायतोंडे: जीवनरेखा |trans-title = Dr. Pundalik Gaitonde: Jeevanrekha|editor-first=Somnath |editor-last=Komarpant |page=17 |date=April 2009 |publisher= Shivanand Gaitonde, Sateri Prakashan |location=Pune}}</ref>

==Role in the Goa Liberation Movement==
He was jailed during [[Portugal|Portuguese]] rule for a protest statement he made while holding office in this region along the west coast of [[India]]. He was born in the southernmost district of [[Canacona]] and married Edila Dutra de Andrade, a European from the [[Açores]].

Pundalik (or Pundolica) D Gaitonde received his medical education first in Goa and [[Bombay]] and later proceeded to [[Lisbon]] in 1938 for further studies. He specialised in surgery and did research on the treatment of cancer.

On his return to Goa, then still a territory of Portugal in 1948, he was appointed Surgeon-Director of the Hospital dos Milagres in [[Mapusa]], the main commercial town in North Goa. He was arrested and deported to Portugal in 1954 for a protest during an official speech.

On his release in 1955, Gaitonde returned to India and settled in [[New Delhi]]. He worked as the honorary senior surgeon at the [[Irwin Hospital]], and was responsible for the creation of the Cancer Unit, which he headed.

In 1960 he was elected president of the National Congress (Goa), a group participating in the [[Goa liberation movement]] by non-violent means. He was the secretary-general of the Conference of the Nationalist Organisations of the Portuguese Colonies at [[Casablanca]] in 1961.

In that capacity, he visited several countries including the [[United States]], [[Brazil]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Sweden]] and [[USSR]], and was at the [[United Nations]] representing the case of Portuguese colonies in general and Goa in particular. His campaigns lead to the Seminar on Portuguese Colonies organised in New Delhi.

After the liberation of Goa from the Portuguese by India in 1961, he became the first nominated member of Parliament for Goa, and also a member of the Goa Planning Board. He subsequently lived in retirement in [[London]], and spent time on the study of the history of medicine and East-West relations during the sixteenth century.

==Books==
* The Liberation of Goa. A Participant's View of History, Oxford University Press, 1987
* Portuguese Pioneers in India: Spotlight on Medicine, Bombay Popular Prakashan 1983
* The [[Goa Opinion Poll|Goan Opinion Poll]], 1967 (co-author), Tipografia Rangel, Bastora, Goa
* The Goa Problem, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, 1956.
* Atomic Energy in Medicine, [[Indian Council of Medical Research]], New Delhi, 1958.
* In Search of Tomorrow, Edila Gaitonde (https://books.google.com/books?id=nUhPGfFg10sC&source=gbs_book_similarbooks&redir_esc=y)

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