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WENDELL RODRIGUES
 Wendell
Rodrigues is a world-renowned fashion designer from Colvale,
Goa. Wendell's clothes have made him the first Indian designer
to be show-pieced at the world's largest ready-to-wear fair
at Germany's IGEDO. Thats not all, he also is a columnist
and a visiting faculty at a famous university.
Wendell believes in understatement. His approach is minimalistic
to both fabric and style. Besides having clad Goldie Hawn, he
also dresses fellow-Goans in his exquisite designs.
He was born in Mumbai and later went on to pursue fashion studies
at Los Angeles and thereafter Paris.
TRISTAO DE BRAGANZA CUNHA
A nationalist in the true sense of the word, Tristao de Braganza
Cunha, was born on April 2nd, 1891. He was unmarried and fought
for just one cause - the freedom of Goa. After obtaining his degree
from Pondicherry, he went to Paris for higher studies at the Sorbonne
University. He did justice to the saying, 'The pen is mightier
than the sword' and strongly propogated the "Freedom
of Goa Movement". Today, he is regarded as the 'Father
of Goan Nationalism'.
After a long sojourn in France, he returned to India in 1926, and
carried on his noble mission of rousing the political consciousness
of the people and mobilising them for the struggle against Portuguese
oppression. Once back in India, he founded the Goa Congress Committee
in the year 1928, the object of which was to fight for the liberation
of Goa, Daman and Diu. The Goa Congress was affiliated to the Indian
National Congress.
His booklet, 'Four Hundred Years of Foreign Rule', and his
pamphlet, 'Denationalisation of Goa', were eye-openers to
the Goans themselves to the painful oppression that had been forced
upon them.
After five years of swordsmanship with his powerful pen, he died
on September 28th, 1958 - three years before the liberation of Goa.
The World Peace Council at Stockholm in 1959 posthumously
awarded T. B. Cunha a gold medal for his contribution to
the cause of "Peace and Friendship among People."
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