Leftists are self righteous people.
They would never miss an opportunity to attack or mock at Hindus, faceless Sadhus and even most innocuous believers, those who have faith in Sanatan Dharma. But in West Bengal context, one can say - for their part, they also created 'sacred cows'. And yes, perhaps they also helped in creating such a myth called Mother Teresa in the 'city of joy'.
Communists and also so called 'intellectuals' can't run away from legacy...the same Leftists never showed required respect to Swami Vivekananda and more often made 'jokes' on Ramakrishna Paramhamsa !!
Meanwhile, journalism had gone for a holiday, because there was no 'inquiry' and conversion went on !!
Of course, the person is no longer around. Personally, one had respect for her especially for her services to the poor and downtrodden. I also visited her institute in Kolkata in the late 1980s and attended a morning prayer session. But as the saying goes, nothing comes or goes 'free'; there were perhaps fault-line in Mother Teresa's functioning as well.
According to Christopher Hitchens, English-American writer, "Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, without regard to the individual's religion. Susan Shields, a former member of the Missionaries of Charity, writes that "Sisters were to ask each person in danger of death if he wanted a 'ticket to heaven'." (Wikipedia)
It is also said:
"An affirmative reply was to mean consent to baptism. The sister was then to pretend that she was just cooling the patient's head with a wet cloth, while in fact she was baptising him, saying quietly the necessary words. Secrecy was important so that it would not come to be known that Mother Teresa's sisters were baptising Hindus and Muslims."
Christopher Hitchens says that Calcutta's reputation as a place of abject poverty, "a hellhole", is not deserved, but nevertheless provides a sympathetic context for Mother Teresa's work there.
He quotes from conversations between Muggeridge and Mother Teresa, providing his own commentary. He quotes Muggeridge's description of "the technically unaccountable light" the BBC team filmed in the interior of the Home of the Dying as "the first authentic photographic miracle". Hitchens contrasts this with the cameraman's statement that what Muggeridge thought was a miracle was the result of them using the latest Kodak film.
"In 2001, Hitchens testified in opposition before the body of the Washington Archdiocese that was considering the cause of Mother Teresa's sainthood. He described his role as that of the traditional devil's advocate charged with casting doubt on the candidate's sanctity.
Mother Teresa was beatified in October 2003. Hitchens marked the occasion by questioning the speed of the modern beatification process and describing "the obviousness of the fakery" of the miracle attributed to her.
He argued that she "was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty" and "a friend to the worst of the rich".
He wrote that the press was to blame for its "soft-hearted, soft-headed, and uninquiring propaganda" on her behalf. She was canonized as Saint Teresa of Kolkata in September 2016.
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Hitchens once said:
"She (Mother Teresa) spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan".
"Where did that money, and all the other donations, go? The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had beenshe preferred California clinics when she got sick herself".
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