Lambert Mascarenhas is a nonagenarian journalist and writer from Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

. His family hails from the Goan Catholic

Goan Catholics

The Goan Catholics are an ethno-religious community of Roman Catholics and their descendants from the state of Goa, located on the west coast of India. They are Konkani people and speak the Konkani language...

 community, a Christian community in Goa.

Career

He was the senior journalist and the editor of the Navhind Times

Navhind Times

The Navhind Times is Goa's most widely read English newspaper. It is one of the better English dailies in Goa covering most issues concerning public life with a high quality of editing.-External links:*...

and first editor of Goa Today, a local monthly magazine. He has also worked with Morning Standard, Bombay Chronicle

Bombay Chronicle

Bombay Chronicle was an English-language newspaper, published from Mumbai , started in 1910 by Sir Pherozeshah Mehta , a prominent lawyer, who later became the president of the Indian National Congress in 1890, and a member of the Bombay Legislative Council in 1893.It was an important Nationalist...

, Bombay Sentinel, Goan Tribune, and Onlooker. He has written several books, including Sorrowing Lies My Land. He was presented with the Laxmidas Borkar Memorial Award for journalism in 2004.

External links

• Review of Sorrowing Lies My Land by Francisco Correia-Afonso (in Portuguese)