Mario de Loiola Furtado

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Who is Mario de Loiola Furtado?

One of Goa's premier journalists. His family ran a news paper titled the "India Purtuguesa", which was an avenue for Goans troubled by the Portuguese rule. Though, neither the news paper nor his columns can be classified as anti-Portuguese, he brought about a new chapter where Goans could criticize and lash out at the Portuguese regime and bring its lapses to the fore. Coming from the Loyola-Furtado family, which was instrumental in assuring civil rights to Goans, equal to the rights enjoyed by people in Portugal, he worked extra hard is ensuring that Goans were treated in equilibrium with the "Pakle" or, the "white people". While Jose Inacio de Loiola and Francisco Luis Gomes ensured that legislations were passed to ensure civil rights, Mario de Loiola Furtado ensured that enough Goans were aware of such legislations and enough Goans worked to uphold them. His stature normally arose to greater cultural heights at carnival times, with "khell tiatres" staged all over the place, specially from the balcao of his ancestral home at Chinchinim. A lawyer by profession, he died in 1946 at a young age of 33, but is remembered by his few surviving contemporaries as a legal luminary.

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