Telo Mascarenhas

Telo de Mascarenhas (born 23 March 1899 at Mormugao Harbour, Goa 1899, died 1979) was an Indian writer, a poet, a journalist and freedom-fighter.

[1] After India's independence from Britain in 1948, Mascerenhas returned to the Subcontinent and actively participated in Goa Liberation Movement.

Returning to Goa in 1959, he was arrested, and the Portuguese rulers deported him to Portugal where he was jailed, first in Aljube prison and then in Caxias.

Mascarenhas published two volumes of poetry: Poemas de Desespero e Concolação (Poems of Despair and Consolation, 1971) and Ciclo Goês (Goan Cycle, 1973).

The novel, Jogos Malabares (Malarbar Games), which he had to hide from the prison authorities, appears to have been lost.