R.V. Pandit
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Raghunath Vishnu Pandit was a 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...

n poet. He is best known and most celebrated for his vast poetic production in Konkani
Konkani language
KonkaniKonkani is a name given to a group of several cognate dialects spoken along the narrow strip of land called Konkan, on the west coast of India. This is, however, somewhat an over-generalisation. Geographically, Konkan is defined roughly as the area between the river Damanganga to the north...

. Pandit also produced a significant body of work in Portuguese after the Liberation of Goa in 1961. Much of his output was written in a neo-realist style demonstrating a marked concern for the downtrodden sections of Goan society.

A monograph on Poet Raghunath Vishnu Pandit has been written by Dr. S. M. Tadkodkar a Konkani-Marathi poet, research scholar and Reader, Head of Department of Marathi Goa University
Goa University
Goa University was established in 1985 and merged with the Centre for Post Graduate Instruction and Research of the University of Bombay that functioned at state-capital Panaji or Panjim. Goa University offers both graduate and post-graduate studies and research programmes...

. It was published by Goa Government's Goa Konkani Akademy, in 2006.

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Examples of his poetry in Portuguese may be found here:
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