''Goa Today'' is a monthly magazine published from Panjim (

Panaji Panaji (; also known as Panjim) is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. Previously, it was the territorial capital of the former Portuguese India. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi river estuary ...

), the state-capital of

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, since 1966, featuring news, literature and local issues. ''Goa Today'' is considered the "grand-daddy" of all monthly magazines in Goa. It was founded by Francisco Damasceno do Rosario Dantas and former joint-editor of '' Navhind Times'',

Lambert Mascarenhas Lambert Mascarenhas ( gom, लॅम्बर्ट मास्कारेन्हस, script=deva, 17 September 1914 – 27 June 2021) was an Indian journalist, independence activist, and writer from Goa. His family hailed from the Goan C ...

, who was awarded the

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, the highest civilian award of Goa in 2014. The main problem facing the magazine in the 2010s is fostering enough advertising to meet publication costs. It was founded by

, now a centurion and F. D. Dantas. During Mascarenhas' and Dantas' ownership, Norman Dantas was first Associate editor and then as Executive editor for the magazine. When ''Goa Today'' was sold to Salgaocar Mining Industries, Mascarenhas was followed as editor by Vaman Sardesai, who left in 1987 to become India's ambassador to

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. He was followed as editor by the poet-journalist

Manohar Shetty Manohar Shetty (born 1953) is a Goa-based poet considered one of the prominent Indian poets writing in the English language. He has been a Senior Fellow with the Sahitya Akademi, the Indian academy of arts and letters, and his work is found in se ...

, who maintained the high standards and promoted Goan literature while keeping the balance between history, political issues and literature. Vinayak Naik is the current editor. In the mid 1980s, ''Goa Today'' was purchased by the Salgaocar Mining Industries, now part of the V. M. Salgaocar group of companies, which also own the Salgaocar Football Club of Goa.

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