Career
A noted scholar, polyglot writer, poet, translator, broadcaster and telecaster, Doctor Gomes had over 40 published books to his cartulary-register He initially started off as a government official with the Central Government of India, in the Indian Revenue Service, but later on shifted to academia and moved on to joining the Goa University"s Konkani department. Doctor Gomes has presented papers and lectures at seminars and conferences in Goa, the rest of India and overseas.
His field of specialisation was language, literature, translation studies, history, sociology and culture.
Professor Gomes had a fascination from his student days with the verse of the Portuguese national poet Luís de Camões. He spent five years of his spare time to translate the epic poet"s work into one of India"s smallest national languages, but his mother-tongue, Konkani.
On the lines of the classical Sanskrit epic of India, the Ramayana, Gomes has called his 747-page translation translation work Luzitayonn. Gomes has argued that there is a "preponderance of probability" that Camoes wrote the epic or a substantial part of it in Goa, "where he wrote most of his poetry".
Doctor Gomes, who was born in Portuguese-ruled Goa, did his Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, got into the Indian Customs and Central Excise higher echelons through the Indian Revenue Service, and then gave up that all to shift back to Goa in 1987 for a life as a scholar.
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