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Margaret Mascarenhas (died 14 July 2019) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and independent curator. Born in the United States and of Goan origin, [1] she spent some of her childhood years in Caracas, Venezuela. [2] She died on 14 July 2019. [3] [4]
She was the author of the novels Skin and The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos.
Skin, a diasporic novel, moves from a bar in California to life in a Goan village and has formed part of the post-colonial academic discourse around the world since it was published by Penguin in 2001. Skin has been described as a "story of a contemporary woman who traces her cross-continental family diaspora which originates with the Portuguese slave trade in India in the 17th century." [5] It has been translated into French and Portuguese. [2] The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos was selected for the Indie Next List [6] and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick in 2009.
Her poetry and sketch collection, Triage--casualties of love and sex was released in 2013.
Mascarenhas' essays and articles have been published in Marg , Colloquio Letras, [7] Urban Voice, [8] and elsewhere. Her op-ed columns and book reviews have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Outlook , India Today , TOI Crest , Hindustan Times , Goa Today , and The Navhind Times Panorama.
In the mid-2000s, Mascarenhas began a mailing list with Wendell Rodricks, urging citizens to report cases of lack of waste management in Goa. [9] She was the founding co-director the Blue Shores Prison Art Project, [10] [11] a prison art curriculum designed for inmates that focuses on the interrelationships between image and text. [12] She was on the Advisory Boards of the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts and Goa Photo.
In the 2010 edition of Skin, she wrote:
In its first avatar, and all its reprints, the penultimate draft of the MS of Skin was the version published by Penguin India, an accidental slip never amended for nine years, mostly because the penultimate version did fine. However, this has always been an issue I knew I would eventually want to address, given the time and the opportunity, which presented itself recently. My purpose in republishing Skin is of course to correct an error that has bothered me for a long time, like an itch. But my purpose in doing it in collaboration with Broadway and Goa,1556 is to highlight the nexus between literature and art and to promote Goa-based writers and artists/art photographers. On the cover of this edition is a painting by Ravi Kerkar. Hopefully, we will be seeing a line of books emerging from this collaboration that makes it a point to use local talent for cover art. [13]
Mascarenhas' blog described her as a "dog whisperer" and one who "sometimes masquerades as jazz singer and chef". [14] She spent the final years of her life in Goa, from where her father originated. There she was a prominent figure in the writing circuit, and also mentored other writers through workshops and other events. [15] [16]
Mascarenhas died in Goa, following a long illness (she was believed to have been suffering from cancer), on 14 July 2019. She was in her late fifties. [15] [16]
Mário João Carlos do Rosário de Brito Miranda, popularly known as Mario Miranda or Mario de Miranda, was an Indian cartoonist and painter based in Loutolim, Goa. He had been a regular with The Times of India and other newspapers in Mumbai, including The Economic Times, though he got his popularity with his works published in The Illustrated Weekly of India. He was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) in 2012.
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Urminda Mascarenhas e Lima Leitao was an Indian politician, educator and businesswoman. She was a former member of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly, representing the Mormugao Assembly constituency from 1963 to 1967. Mascarenhas was the first woman MLA to be elected in the 1963 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election, also the first and only woman legislator from the Mormugao Assembly constituency. She was known for her diligent attitude and radical speeches in the state legislative assembly.
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