Daijiworld Media Network
Panaji, Jun 27: Journalist and freedom fighter Lambert Mascarenhas breathed his last on Sunday, Jun 27. He was 106-years-old.
He started his career as a journalist in the Morning Standard at Mumbai. He worked as a sub-editor at the Bombay Sentinel, under editor B. G. Horniman.
He was joint editor of The Navhind Times in its launch year of 1963 and later co-founded the Goa Today magazine and edited it for several years until he and his partner Dantas (father of Norman Dantas) sold it to Salgaocars in the 1980s.
He was born in Goa, but his early education was in Pune and later at the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.
He had taken a vow that he would marry only after Liberation of Goa from the colonial Portuguese rule. Hence, he married on 29 December 1961, exactly ten days after Goa's liberation on 19 December 1961.