Ananta Rau Sar Dessai
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- Writer
- playwright
- poet
- physician
Ananta Rau Sar Dessai | |
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| Born | 1910 (age 115–116) |
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| Years active | 1930s–1960s |
Ananta Rau Sar Dessai (1910 – unknown) was an Indian short-story writer, radio playwright, poet, and medical practitioner. He was one of a handful of Goan Hindus to have used Portuguese as his literary language, though he wrote also in Marathi. He was perhaps the only dedicated fictionist in Portuguese to have operated in Goa throughout the Estado Novo (New State).[1] 'His idiosyncratic language, raw provocative themes, and the great ambiguity with which he treats his subjects, make Sar Dessai one of the more interesting Goan writers to have worked in Portuguese'.[2]
Sar Dessai was born in 1910 and practised medicine in the town of Mardol, Portuguese Goa. He drew on his experience as a clinician for many of his plays and short narratives, such as Um Cavalheiro Amável (A Pleasant Gentleman) and Vaxina, dá-me um pouco de Vaxina também (Vacshin, give me some vacshin too).[3]