Dr. Manoharrai Sardessai was a renowned Goan felicitated with Sahitya Academy award for his Konkani poetry collection "Pissolim" in 1980.
The celebrated poet popularly known as 'Lok-Kavi', Dr Manoharrai Laxmanrao Sardessai passed away in a city hospital after a brief illness late on Tuesday 22, 2006
Below is the preface to the tri-lingual book "My Song" "Ma Chanson" "O Meu Canto" containing a collection of poems by Dr.Manohar Rai SarDessai as his originals in Konkani, English and French or renditions/translations in English, French or Portuguese by the poet himself, Jorge de Abreu Noronha [Portuguese, English], Anuradha Wagle [French], B. B. Borcar [English], Fr. Vasco do Regosj [English], Carmo Azavedo [Portuguese], Fr. Joaquim de Loiola Pereira, Laxman
Roa SarDessai [Portuguese] and Alberto de Noronha [Portuguese]. the preface, writen by Maria Aurora Couto, is reproduced verbatim in its original English text. the preface has also been translated and reproduced in French and Portuguese in the book.