Edila de Andrade Gaitonde (3 November 1920 – 27 July 2021) was a Portuguese musician and writer.

[1] In 1947, Edila while busy with her studies, fell ill for a long period of time, caused by her exhaustion.

[2] Pundalik and Edila decided to marry, but faced stiff opposition from their respective families.

[4] The reason why Gaitonde selected Peniche as the honeymoon destination was that Peniche was the location of the prison-fort where several activists of the Goa Liberation Movement such as Tristão de Bragança Cunha, Purushottam Kakodkar, Rama Hegde, José Inácio Candido de Loyola and Laxmikant Bhembre were imprisoned.

A woman journalist from France was on a visit to the prison in order to meet Tristão de Bragança Cunha.

Gaitonde then began his medical practice there, while continuing his nationalist activities as part of the National Congress (Goa).

Her second book, The Tulsi, is a collection of short stories, including about the life of a Catholic Portuguese woman and her experiences in a Goan Hindu household.

Nava and Edila got married in 2010, and lived in Leça de Palmeira, in Porto, until his death in 2017.