[4] Since there were no further opportunities for higher education in Canacona, Gaitonde joined the A. J. de Almeida School at Ponda to pursue his first year of Lyceum.

He graduated in surgery from the Faculty of Medicine at the Lisbon University, where he was taught by António Egas Moniz (who went on to become a Nobel laureate in 1949) and Reynaldo dos Santos.

[6] On 17 February 1954, while attending the farewell party of a Portuguese judge, Pundalik objected to the toast proposed by one of the invitees, saying "Eu protesto" (transl.

He was then tried at the Lisbon High Court on 7 July 1954 and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment (including the detention period), or a fine of 40 Escudos per day in lieu of jail term.

[6] In June 1957, Gaitonde was part of a delegation of 11 Goans chosen for consultation by then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.

[6] He attended the Conference of the Nationalist Organisations of the Portuguese Colonies at Casablanca in 1961, along with George Vaz and Cajetan Lobo.

He was also appointed as a member of important committees such as the one forming port authorities and another amending the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.

[7] In the 1963 Elections for Lok Sabha members from Goa, when he contested as a candidate for the Indian National Congress, he secured the third position with only 20,000 (16%) of the total votes.

[citation needed] On his return to Goa, then still a territory of Portugal in 1948, Pundalik Gaitonde was appointed Surgeon-Director of the Hospital dos Milagres in Mapusa.

[1] He worked as the honorary senior surgeon at the Irwin Hospital, New Delhi, in the 1950s, and was responsible for the creation of the Cancer Unit, which he headed.

[1] He spent his later years compiling a computerised book for the treatment of cancer, marketing it to Indian doctors.

[12] Edila was born at the Faial Island of the Azores[13] and had studied music at the National Conservatory of Lisbon.

[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.