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From: "Anirban Chaudhuri" <notification+i33imkim@facebookmail.com>

Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:27:15 -0700

To: KOLKATA UNPLUGGED<kolkataclassic@groups.facebook.com>

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Subject: Re: [KOLKATA UNPLUGGED] Oh no, Mother!

Anirban Chaudhuri commented on Raja Mitra's post in KOLKATA UNPLUGGED. Anirban Chaudhuri 6:57pm Jun 20 @Suman B I try to be impartial as much as I percieve, and I must admit I fully agree with you in my heart, NOW that you are telling me the TRUTH. I wish it was all a lie. That's unfortunate and actually heart-breaking -- shock for me. I learnt something today, and came to know about yet another contradiction of life, in the 42nd year of my life. Being on a pedestal, and using that height and respect, impart Responsibility. Here I perhaps shall go a step further than you (or what you know but not said for propriety's sake, on both individual and social levels). Yes it is human to be fallible, and once that happens, certain sets of corrigendum need to corrected. The more authority and trust one develops, the scope to commit errors becomes narrower -- the person definitely can argue on the basis of being Humane (and the 'holier-than-thou' clichés), and he should be answered and corrected on the basis of Humanity, Comment History Suman Bhowmik 5:19pm Jun 20 doc, what you say is part truth. what you do not, maybe because you did not work with her closely enough, is that to be so taken care of by her or her team, every leper, poor or sick needed to convert first. to accept that jesus was his / her lord. to push in a conversion agenda on those hapless beings was not only to say my god is better than yours (which is a whole load of crap by any yardstick) but also making profit out of human misery. that is despicable in normal, fallible humans. in one who is claimed to be a saint (obviously for pushing a church agenda of increasing flocks of poor lambs) it is a crime beyond pardon!! so while you have every right to believe in the godliness of agnes, the many others who have happened to have worked closely with the moc and are aware of these issues, have an equal, if not stronger right to differ. in every case its an individual opinion and the citizenship of this country has little to do with it. and finally, erudite as you always are & sentimental as you now are, the fact remains that the argument over agnes is often a one of facts versus public image (created by a biased western media, followed by a me-too indian media and gobbled up by a lot ignorant indians - i would venture so much as to say mostly bengalis, the other provinces largely keeping a straight mind - that love hero worship in some form or another). your note therefore makes you as much part of the reality show as everyone else you see `salivating for bread.' ;-)). Anirban Chaudhuri 12:37pm Jun 20 This is bloody outrageous. Both the author and the reader seem to bo psychopaths, and in my opinion, criticizing just for the sake if criticizing. And even if She's done everything for money or popularity, LET IT BE. We have seen enough of the humanoid sub-species- the 'His/Her Holiness, His Holy Scrupules ('Scriptures' for a group with a lot of common things), His Face and The Intent that lies behind, and The Holy Halo. We know our level of 'Vedic Tolerance', and how much we can take without making a single sound,(at least the Vocal type)... Let's not bother about efforts at posthumous epitomisation of those who, we (some of us) believe and preach, might have had Hell to be the possible destination of their post-mortem soulless journey. I have seen Sister Teresa cleaning faeces ('shit' oops!-- 'Crap' for the urbane and the metropolitan), vomittus ('Puke' for the same demographic segment) , pus, infected blood & a range of discharges from a range of human orifices (of which many of us wouldn't be able to tolerate the stench, let alone touch) with a compassionate smile, with a Prayer, and with words of Comfort that make us believe. So, for all the commandeering and wangles, the dubious tyranny of those she knew, and the possible 'blood donations' she might have managed (according to this personified encyclopedia that reports about the ostentations), I, as an Indian, shall continue to respect the Mother if I truly believe that she might saved and shaped the life of even only One sick leper child, of a much lesser god. We silently celebrate brutal deaths, rapes, assassinations with consummate ease over our morning coffee. Let's tolerate an eventual birth, born out of destiny's folly. Say what -- we could even politicise this blasphemous act to take over the parliament? ? I see hungry faces.. Okay..I don't know what's cooking in Hitchen's Kitchen so I throw this piece of bread into the crowd called You. Watching this Reality Show is a salivating prospect.. Original Post Raja Mitra 6:06am Jun 20 Oh no, Mother! I was reminded of Sister Agnes (aka Mother Teresa) once again on coming across the following lines in Christopher Hitchens' review of Joseph Lelyveld's book on Gandhi. "When Mother Teresa—another denizen of that unworldly India of redemption by self-abnegation—had her audience with Pope Paul VI, she reportedly took a bus to the Vatican and wore only her everyday sari and sandals. I wrote at the time that, if true, this was not modesty but ostentation." This of course is greatly at variance with her usual practice of commandeering Calcutta Corporation ambulances regularly during the 60s & 70s and travelling around in them for free with her acolyte nuns. Given that Kolkata's favourite nun used to wangle first-class tickets for free from airlines managers (' in God's name, for God's work' ) and jet around all over the globe meeting dubious tyrants & established embezzlers among others from whom she managed to get many millions of 'donations' which were subsequently never ever accounted for and get treated at some very good and expensive hospitals all over the world whenever she was unwell. this was indeed an ostentatious act, if not a downright hypocritical one. You can read more details about her duplicity by going through Dr. Aroup Chatterjee's written deposition to the Vatican about her http://www.facebook.com/l/6d4aaAnnvTdoi9KkCPC54b_sw4g/www.deeshaa.org/deposition-mother-of-all-myths/ or from this article http://www.facebook.com/l/6d4aa2CByVywEhzXw75B1vEfOlA/www.deeshaa.org/906/ by the veteran journalist & erstwhile editor of The Statesman Sunanda K. Datta-Ray published in The Australian over a decade ago (both reproduced by Dr. Atanu Dey in his blog). Hitchens who is the author of an interesting book on Mother Teresa entitled " The Missionary Position : Mother Teresa in Theory & Practice" (Detailed excerpts from this book can be read at Google Books here Mother Teresa - Christopher Hitchens from Google Books< http://www.facebook.com/l/6d4aaUv88Q2wTSwu5Y4ktvzSn5g/books.google.com/books?id=PTgJIjK67rEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA19%23v%3Donepage&q&f=false>) had this to say subsequently when the Vatican decided to beatify her. http://www.facebook.com/l/6d4aav3Qj4EWr0UqSCuTropSuoQ/www.slate.com/id/2090083/ Undaunted by all this of course Kolkata now has a Metro station named after her. And the unqualified, unthinking adulation is all set to continue. View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.