Women who fought the Portuguese and social stigma (Special feature 60th year of Goa Liberation)
Women who fought the Portuguese and social stigma TNN | Dec 19, 2021, 07.07 AM IST Originally published on: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/women-who-fought-the-portuguese-and-social-stigma/articleshowprint/88366759.cms PANAJI: Most recognised freedom fighters may be male, but the story of the other half is no less stirring, wrote Manohar Rai Sardesai. “For young women to even stand up to those Portuguese officers and those ‘pakle’! Do you know how daring that was? Even 10 women were like a hundred of them. Look at those times, women couldn’t even step out,” says 89-year-old Naguesh Karmali. And he would know, he was in the thick of things. Karmali was sentenced to 10 years in jail on September 15, 1954, serving five at Aguada and Reis Magos before being freed. Surrounded by towering books at his Ribandar home, he talks of times when forest-dwellers between Quepem and Rivona sheltered a rag-tag group of freedom figh...
