page_title: Margaret Mascarenhas
section_title: Other pursuits
hierarchical_section_title: Margaret Mascarenhas / Other pursuits
caption_attribution_description: English: Margaret Mascarenhas, author of the novel 'Skin', etc 1
context_page_description: Margaret Mascarenhas was a transnational novelist, poet, essayist and independent curator. Born in America and of Goan ethnicity, she spent some of her childhood years in Caracas, Venezuela. She died on 14 July 2019.
context_section_description: In the mid-2000s, Mascarenhas began a mailing list with Wendell Rodricks, urging citizens to report cases of lack of waste management in Goa. She was the founding co-director the Blue Shores Prison Art Project, a prison art curriculum designed for inmates that focuses on the interrelationships between image and text. She was on the Advisory Boards of the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts and Goa Photo.
  In the 2010 edition of Skin, she wrote:
  In its first avatar, and all its reprints, the penultimate draft of the MS of Skin was the version published by Penguin India, an accidental slip never amended for nine years, mostly because the penultimate version did fine. However, this has always been an issue I knew I would eventually want to address, given the time and the opportunity, which presented themselves recently. My purpose in republishing Skin is of course to correct an error that has bothered me for a long time, like an itch. But my purpose in doing it in collaboration with Broadway and Goa,1556 is to highlight the nexus between literature and art and to promote Goa-based writers and artists/art photographers. On the cover of this edition is a painting by Ravi Kerkar. Hopefully, we will be seeing a line of books emerging from this collaboration that makes it a point to use local talent for cover art.
caption: Margaret Mascarenhas in 2008
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