Pondá (Goa), 10 November 1915- Brazil,?. Raul de Sepúlveda Fontes, was a writer, essayist and journalist in Goa, Bombay and Brazil where he moved to in 1950. Being a theosophist and a spiritualist, he contributed to correlated periodicals. He represented the Portuguese government on the Washington Conference where the Roerich Pact was established (1935), and maintained a correspondence with Nikolai Roerich, to whom he dedicated a book. As a journalist in Goa, he founded the magazines The Literary Review and the Revista do Comércio, of which only one issue was published, and contributed to the Diário da Noite, Heraldo, O Heraldo, Pracasha, Bharat, Jornal da Índia, O Académico. in addition to the magazines Reason and Theosophis published in British India. While living in Bombay he was an editor at The Onlooker and Indian Home. He was also a correspondent of the Portuguese news agency (UPI) and of the Lisbon titles A Acção, Diário Popular and Estudos Psíquicos. As a public servant of the propaganda and publicity services, he was the architect of the Radio of Goa publicity services. After moving to Brazil he worked to the A Noite and O Mundo Português in Rio de Janeiro, and O Pensamento in S. Paulo. He also became a partner and director of the company Redactorial Brasil, Lda, in Rio de Janeiro.
References: O Académico (Nova-Goa); Costa, Aleixo Manuel da, Dicionário de Literatura Goesa. Instituto Cultural de Macau: Fundação Oriente, 1997, v. 1, p. 419-420; Garmes, Helder, "Magazines and intellectual movements: literature and politics in the Goan periodical O Académico (1940-1943)" In The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions. ed. Sandra Ataide Lobo, Jessica Falconi, Remy Dias and Dave A. Smith. Routledge, 2023, pp. 80-97, 83; profile by Pedro Teixeira da Mota and Pedro Teixeira da Mota: O Mestre ou guru Nicholai Roerich, visto por Raúl de Sepúlveda Fontes.
Form and biographic note: Sandra Ataíde Lobo