Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar (12 December 1916 – 5 September 2000) was a campaigner, author and the first speaker of the

Goa Legislative Assembly The Goa Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the state of Goa in India. The Assembly meets at the Goa State Legislative Assembly Complex in Porvorim, Bardez. The Eighth Goa Legislative Assembly consists of 40 members. The asse ...

. He was born in Goa in

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. He studied law and worked as an editor of the ''

Navshakti ''Navshakti'' ( Marathi (मराठी) – नवशक्ति ) is a Marathi newspaper based in Mumbai, India. The newspaper has a circulation of 83,910 across the state of Maharashtra. This paper was started by S. Sadanand. P. R. Behere ...

'' daily newspaper in Mumbai. Later he participated actively in Goa's struggle for freedom from Portuguese colonial rule and was in exile in Africa and Portugal for many years. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and a prominent figure in the

Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP) was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961. In the first elections held after the Annexation of Goa by India, it ascended to power in December 1963 and stayed in power t ...

.cabinet government in Goa, 1961–1993, Pages:4–5 By Aureliano Fernandes Shirodkar authored many books in Marathi, Konkani, English and Portuguese, and translated

Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar Tilak (; born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (pronunciation: eʃəʋ ɡəŋɡaːd̪ʱəɾ ʈiɭək; 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), endeared as Lokmanya (IAST: ''Lokmānya''), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence a ...

's ''Shrimadbhagwadgeetarahasya'' into Portuguese.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shirodkar, Pandurang Purushottam Speakers of the Goa Legislative Assembly Indian National Congress politicians from Goa Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party politicians Goa, Daman and Diu MLAs 1963–1967 Goa liberation activists 1916 births 2000 deaths

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