Background
He was born in 1910 and practised medicine in the town of Mardol, Goa.
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Ananta Rau Sar Dessai
Edit Profileplaywright Goan short-story writer poet
Career
He was perhaps the only dedicated fictionist in Portuguese to have operated in Goa throughout the Estado Novo. "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". He drew on his experience as a clinician for many of his plays and short narratives, such as "Um Cavalheiro Amável" and "Vaxina, dá-me um pouco de Vaxina também".
Vimala Devi and Manuel de Seabra.
A Literatura Indo-Portuguesa. Lisbon: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1973
Paul Melo e Castro, ‘Ananta Rau Sar Dessai’s Radio Days’, in Mundo Goa, Vivek Menezes and Nigel Britto (eds), Panjim, India: Sinbal’s Book House, 2014, pp.202-208.
Paul Melo e Castro, "Dictatorship, Liberation, Transition in the Short Fiction of Three Portuguese-Language Goan Authors: Alberto de Menezes Rodrigues, Ananta Rau Sar Dessai and Telo de Mascarenhas", Journal of Romance, 13/2 (2013), pp.
