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{{short description|Indian writer and poet (1899–1979)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2016}}
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{{Infobox person
| name=
| image = File:Telo de Mascarenhas in 1940s.jpg
| caption = Mascarenhas in 1940s
| birth_name = Telo de Mascarenhas
| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|3|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Marmagoa]], [[Goa]], [[Portuguese India]]
| death_date = {{dya|1979|1899}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Writer|poet|journalist|freedom fighter}}
| alma_mater = [[University of Coimbra]] (1930)
| nationality = {{ubl|
* Portuguese<br/>(until 1961)
* Indian (from 1961)}}
| years_active = 1920s–1970s
| movement = [[Goa liberation movement]]
}}

'''Telo de Mascarenhas''' (23 March 1899 – 1979) was an Indian writer, poet, journalist and [[freedom fighter]].

==Biography==
In 1920, Mascarenhas travelled to Portugal to study, graduating in law from the [[University of Coimbra]] in 1930, where he was taught by Portuguese statesman [[António de Oliveira Salazar]], amongst others. During this period he founded Lisbon's [[Centro Nacionalista Hindu]] in 1926, and the periodical ''[[Índia Nova]]'', alongside fellow poet [[Adeodato Barreto]] and other émigré [[Goan]] intellectuals. Through the 1930s and 1940s, Mascerenhas worked in the Portuguese judicial system, first in the [[Algarve]] and then in the [[Alentejo]].<ref>Paul Melo e Castro, ''Lengthening Shadows'', 2 vols (Saligão, India: Goa, 1556, 2016), I p. 27.</ref>

After India's independence from Britain in 1948, Mascerenhas returned to the subcontinent and actively participated in [[Goa liberation movement]]. Although he spent some time in Goa, he was forced into exile and spent the years 1950-58 in [[Bombay]]. During his years of exile in Bombay, he published clandestinely ''Ressurge Goa'', a political newspaper from 1950 to 1959. Returning to Goa in 1959, he was arrested, and the Portuguese rulers deported him to Portugal where he was jailed, first in [[Cadeia do Aljube|Aljube prison]] and then in [[Fort of King Luís I|Caxias]]. Some years after the [[annexation of Goa]] he was released by the Government of Portugal in 1970 in exchange for the release of the Goan priest [[Chico Monteiro]], who had been placed under house arrest by the Indian authorities for refusing to give up his Portuguese nationality.<ref>Paul Melo e Castro, ''Lengthening Shadows'', 2 vols (Saligão, India: Goa, 1556, 2016), I p. 27.</ref>

On his return to Goa from Portugal in 1970, Mascarenhas founded the [[Círculo de Amizade Indo-Portuguesa]] (the Indo-Portuguese Friendship Society)<ref>Paul Melo e Castro, ''Lengthening Shadows'', 2 vols (Saligão, India: Goa, 1556, 2016), I p. 27.</ref> and restarted ''Ressurge Goa'' as a cultural and political paper.

==Works==
Mascarenhas was a prolific poet in Portuguese<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vicente |first=Filipa Lowndes |date=2022-01-09 |title=Arlindo Vicente e Telo de Mascarenhas: a oposição a Salazar e o fim da "Índia portuguesa" |url=https://www.publico.pt/2022/01/09/mundo/investigacao/arlindo-vicente-telo-mascarenhas-oposicao-salazar-fim-india-portuguesa-1990877 |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=PÚBLICO |language=pt}}</ref> and also did a [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] translation of the autobiography of anti-colonial nationalist [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and of many novels by Bengali poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]].

=== Poetry in Portuguese ===

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

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110722230226/https://elgg.leeds.ac.uk/smlpmmec/weblog/19425.html Dois Poemas]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110722230254/https://elgg.leeds.ac.uk/smlpmmec/weblog/19715.html As Sementeiras]
*[http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2011/09/telo-de-mascarenhas-primavera-chegou.html A Primavera Chegou]

===Prose writing in Portuguese===

Mascarenhas published an English-language autobiography, ''When the Mango-Trees Blossomed'', in 1975. In it Mascarenhas claims to have written a novel and a novella during his incarceration in Portugal. The novel, ''Jogos Malabares'' (Malarbar Games), which he had to hide from the prison authorities, appears to have been lost. The novella was his ''Sinfonia Goesa'', written in 1962 while Mascerenhas was imprisoned in [[Cadeia do Aljube|Aljube gaol]]. Though it was never published in its entirety, several fragments saw the light of day in the post-Liberation Portuguese-language press. Some of Mascarenhas's writing has been published in English translation.<ref>Paul Melo e Castro, ''Lengthening Shadows'', 2 vols (Saligão, India: Goa, 1556, 2016), I pp. 27-28 (quoting p. 28); II pp. 5-17.</ref>

*[http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2011/10/telo-de-mascarenhas-cronica-de-viagem.html Crónica de Viagem a Bombaim]

== External References ==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=m2FmAAAAMAAJ&q=Telo+Mascarenhas&dq=Telo+Mascarenhas Bio entry on Mascarenhas]
*[http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2011/03/telo-de-mascarenhas-obituary-1979.html Obituary of Telo de Mascarenhas (in Portuguese)]
*[http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2011/03/telo-de-mascarenhas-o-nosso-passado.html Text by Mascarenhas recollecting his political past (in Portuguese)]
*[http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2011/06/telo-de-mascarenhas-carta-de-rendicao.html Mascarenhas memories of the Liberation of Goa as accompanied from his prison cell (in Portuguese)]
*[http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2011/09/eduardo-pereira-de-andrade-doutor-telo.html Poem dedicated to Mascarenhas by Eduardo Pereira de Andrade (in Portuguese)]

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