name for m teresa courtesy christopher hitchens (what a dude he was!)if this ghoul, in her missionary position (again thanks the hitchens) was a 'saint', then i'm the queen of england.
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From: sri
Date: Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Subject: Poor Calcutta - New York Times
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Poor Calcutta
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/opinion/05banerji.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin By CHITRITA BANERJI
Published: September 5, 2007
Cambridge, Mass. ONE morning in January 1997, I walked into my office at a nonprofit group
here after a visit to my hometown, Calcutta. A very senior colleague, whom I
would have, until then, characterized as being the "sensitive" sort, greeted
me: "Welcome back. And how is everyone in Calcutta — still starving and
being looked after by Mother Teresa?" At first I thought this might be a bad attempt at humor, but I soon realized
that my colleague was seriously inquiring about my city's suffering humanity
and its ministering angel — the only images Calcutta evoked for him and
countless others in the West. When Mother Teresa died eight months later, 10
years ago today, foreign dignitaries and the Western news media descended on
the city. The reports on the funeral portrayed a city filled with starving
orphans, wretched slums and dying people abandoned on the streets, except
for the fortunate ones rescued by Mother Teresa. They described a city I didn't recognize as the place where I had spent the
first 20 years of my life. There was no mention of Calcutta's beautiful
buildings and educated middle class, or its history of religious tolerance
and its vibrant literary and cultural life. Besides, other Indian cities
also have their share of poverty, slums and destitution, as would be
expected in a country where a third of the population lives on $1 a day —
for example, more than half of Mumbai residents live in slums, far more than
in Calcutta. Why were they not equally damned in the eyes of the world?
From: sri
Date: Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Subject: Poor Calcutta - New York Times
To:
Poor Calcutta
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/opinion/05banerji.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin By CHITRITA BANERJI
Published: September 5, 2007
Cambridge, Mass. ONE morning in January 1997, I walked into my office at a nonprofit group
here after a visit to my hometown, Calcutta. A very senior colleague, whom I
would have, until then, characterized as being the "sensitive" sort, greeted
me: "Welcome back. And how is everyone in Calcutta — still starving and
being looked after by Mother Teresa?" At first I thought this might be a bad attempt at humor, but I soon realized
that my colleague was seriously inquiring about my city's suffering humanity
and its ministering angel — the only images Calcutta evoked for him and
countless others in the West. When Mother Teresa died eight months later, 10
years ago today, foreign dignitaries and the Western news media descended on
the city. The reports on the funeral portrayed a city filled with starving
orphans, wretched slums and dying people abandoned on the streets, except
for the fortunate ones rescued by Mother Teresa. They described a city I didn't recognize as the place where I had spent the
first 20 years of my life. There was no mention of Calcutta's beautiful
buildings and educated middle class, or its history of religious tolerance
and its vibrant literary and cultural life. Besides, other Indian cities
also have their share of poverty, slums and destitution, as would be
expected in a country where a third of the population lives on $1 a day —
for example, more than half of Mumbai residents live in slums, far more than
in Calcutta. Why were they not equally damned in the eyes of the world?
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2 comments:
Ordinarily I would sympathize with people who have unfairly fallen victim to the Church's propaganda, but this being sanctimonious Bongs they deserve it all and more. It is pure schadenfreude to see how their beloved Kolkatta is the symbol of post-apocalyptic bestiality deserving of selfless Christian salvation, especially when it comes to their mimic-leftist diaspora in the West. Divakaruni and her ilk are torn between their fashionable anti-Hindu sensitivities in alliance with Western leftists who have no such qualms about their Greek/Roman/Judeo/Christian heritage, and their notion of Bengali intellectual superiority that has been seriously tarnished by the desires of the Catholic Church and Protestant missionaries for a poster child for their bean-counting activities.
Bengalis were once in the forefront of a Hindu intellectual renaissance for this civilization that had been deeply and near-mortally wounded, but their great hubris in their culture divorced from the greater Hindu civilization that sustained it, and their wholesale mimicry of the neo-colonialistic ideals of international communism has led to Bengal becoming the armpit of India. Even Bihar, the poster child for how far a great culture can fall when its roots have been repeatedly severed, has only one way to go after hitting rock bottom, which is up. But Bengal has not yet hit the floor, because decades of communist misrule will take time to unravel, and it isn't helped by the leftist anti-Hindu indoctrination which lingers among its intellectuals who have cut off their own roots to the civilization that sustained their culture. And they wonder why their once strong branch withers away and the infection is set upon by parasites who seek to widen it?
Dr. Aroup Chatterjee wrote a brilliant expose on Mother Teresa that is far more in depth than the late Hitchen's pamphlet that outed her. Yet even the good Doctor could not put aside his parochial notions of Bengali cultural superiority even as he meticulously chronicled the fraud perpetuated by Teresa and the Church. Like Divakaruni, his outrage is more about how his beloved Calcutta's name has been deeply tarnished in the West than how the rest of India also faces this relentless Christian onslaught from well-heeled organizations who raise enormous amounts of money from their anti-Hindu propaganda. Calcutta is just their poster child for fund-raising towards their greater goal of Christianizing Hindus.
My bad, I assumed that the columnist was the writer Chitra Divakaruni Bannerjee. It doesn't change the gist, but Nizhal please correct if possible.
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