Born in an indigent family at Bicholim which lacked basic educational facilities, he studied upto the matriculation through the help of a well-to-do relative in Mumbai. Beyond this, he was a self-taught man. Centuries of foreign subjugation had drained the Konkani people of all sense of ethnic self-respect. Deliberate linguistic suppression during more than 300 years by the colonial power has do reduced the once vibrant Konkani language to a patois. The Konkani ...
