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Awara1984
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Post Number: 9371 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 183.82.166.186
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 12:02 pm: |
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Rudra:
Please share with us why was she granted Saint hood by Pope we will like to hear the story |
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Biggboss
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Post Number: 4595 Registered: 08-2017 Posted From: 172.58.37.146
Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 11:05 am: |
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Rudra:I have worked for their charity , so know lot about what they do and how thy function.
The medical care she offered did not meet standards, even for third world hospice care. And quotes like this, "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people," and "the most beautiful gift for a person that he can participate in the sufferings of Christ," certainly don't put her in the best light. Her goal was never to treat the poor sick. Her goals were conversion and to help people suffer properly to prepare their souls for the afterlife. Added to this the fact that she went to western hospitals when she herself got sick, makes her look like a hypocrite as well. |
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Mental_sachinodu
Megastar Username: Mental_sachinodu
Post Number: 21853 Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 50.241.19.41
Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 10:48 am: |
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Rudra:uffff oka boku bokadia news item theesukochi mother theresa ni comment chesthunnara.. People commenting her - have you ever read anything about her or followed why she has become a saint.. lauda lo mana party mana kulam thappite migitha antha oka opinion form chesukovali without information and blindly argue .. chusssssssss I have worked for their charity , so know lot about what they do and how thy function.
Not everyone argues blindly. there have been many people who have questioned her operations and they are all well documented. I am not sure who have read those side of arguments as well. Regarding, working in a charity and knowing alot about them. I would not bet on myself knowing about people I am working with. Its like saying, People who have worked for Satyam or say Enron or people who go to catholic church would have known all the crimes that were committed by them. Again, you are equating commenting on Mother Theresa to the charity carried on her name, and the people who do selfless work on her name. they are two different things. |
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Discoveringself
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Post Number: 2592 Registered: 01-2016 Posted From: 136.2.16.184
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 10:30 am: |
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Rudra:People commenting her - have you ever read anything about her or followed why she has become a saint..
hahahha.........jeez..reddochchi modalu ani........aa madhya OT and other gang undedi ilaa......not knwoing anything, just defending everything looking at the big name and fame....... every once in a while, ee new extremely intelligent and informed intellectual newbies join DB....story malli modalu.......how greta MOther....how greta javed Akthar anukuntaa.......... rudra, nuvvu taggoddu .....continue aipo...apart from all commie sickular idiots, naa support koodaa neekey.... |
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Discoveringself
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Post Number: 2591 Registered: 01-2016 Posted From: 136.2.16.184
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 10:27 am: |
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Time_pass:There is a law and BJP wants to overturn it for political reasons
triple talaq kooda nadichindi monnatidaaka...em cheddaam....aa law ento cheppu....chooddaam, whether to oppose or not.......ofcourse political parties will do politics.....but just politics and power at any cost should nto be thier guiding path.... ee jyothi laxmi dance enti...vishayam cheppu raja.....whats in the law?.... |
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Rudra
Junior Artist Username: Rudra
Post Number: 637 Registered: 03-2016 Posted From: 171.159.48.4
Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 10:17 am: |
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uffff oka boku bokadia news item theesukochi mother theresa ni comment chesthunnara.. People commenting her - have you ever read anything about her or followed why she has become a saint.. lauda lo mana party mana kulam thappite migitha antha oka opinion form chesukovali without information and blindly argue .. chusssssssss I have worked for their charity , so know lot about what they do and how thy function. |
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Teluguhero
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Post Number: 2813 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 76.106.197.158
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 10:14 am: |
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Babies sold by Mother Teresaâs Missionaries of Charity have been rescued, confirms Police http://www.opindia.com/2018/07/babies-sold-by-mother-teresas -missionaries-of-charity-have-been-rescued-confirms-police/ |
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Time_pass
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Post Number: 11492 Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 136.174.187.5
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 10:03 am: |
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Discoveringself:
There is a law and BJP wants to overturn it for political reasons what is the difference? |
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Discoveringself
Side Hero Username: Discoveringself
Post Number: 2589 Registered: 01-2016 Posted From: 136.2.16.184
Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 09:56 am: |
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Time_pass:meeda thread veste mari nuvvemi iyipoyav
ppl shud have the right to convert no?....conversions by inducement can be a problem.....and if states encourage and allow that, we can oppose it.... state law specifics chepthey alaagey oppose cheddaam....Bro. Anil, Sharmila and Jagan's mother chesedi personal gaa nachchakapovachchu....but we can not make it illegal....law should not be about "Us Vs. Them".... |
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Time_pass
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Post Number: 11482 Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 136.174.187.5
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 09:47 am: |
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Discoveringself:okka "real" liberal raadu induloki...
monna BJP government in Arunachal Pradesh plans to repeal anti-conversion law https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bjp-government-in- arunachal-pradesh-plans-to-repeal-anti-conversion-law/story- aLzsWx8ZNyTnxTHxgqFIZK.html meeda thread veste mari nuvvemi iyipoyav |
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Mental_sachinodu
Megastar Username: Mental_sachinodu
Post Number: 21852 Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 50.241.19.41
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 07:37 am: |
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Discoveringself:socially liberal but personally conservative.....I feel about myself......can hardly relate to either these so called liberals or conservatives....
i feel the definitions have long been twisted to suit their agendas. liberalism is an attitude with the idea that the universe is pluralistic. Most folks who think they are liberal, do not fall under this category. they are aligned "liberal philosophy", but their attitude towards is anything but. i have said it in DB many times... if Osama was a liberal(politically) he would still be the same violent, achieve by any means crook. anyway - gotta go... took a short break. |
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Discoveringself
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Post Number: 2588 Registered: 01-2016 Posted From: 99.243.218.18
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 07:27 am: |
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Mental_sachinodu:loll.. nanne naa pilichindhi
nuvvu kaadulevo.....I know u r pretty balanced person....although konchem easy target kaabatti hindu topics lo konchem ekkuva target anipistundi...
Mental_sachinodu:Mother Theresa is a "real" conservative.
same way like "liberals".....I don't know whether ppl with "zeal" should be called "conservative"........motivated by some ideology and imposing it on others by hook or crook, doesn't really sound "conservative" to me.....both these liberals and conservatives sound like commie zealots..... socially liberal but personally conservative.....I feel about myself......can hardly relate to either these so called liberals or conservatives.... |
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Mental_sachinodu
Megastar Username: Mental_sachinodu
Post Number: 21851 Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 50.241.19.41
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 07:20 am: |
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Discoveringself:okka "real" liberal raadu induloki...malla pseudo antey yedupu modaledathaaru...
loll.. nanne naa pilichindhi anyway - MT may be a new topic for most in this DB. these have been posted by "real" liberals like me way back. between, Mother Theresa is a "real" conservative..adhi mathream ignore chedham  |
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Enigmatic
Comedian Username: Enigmatic
Post Number: 1570 Registered: 11-2010 Posted From: 71.162.194.3
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 03:28 pm: |
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Speaker: lekunda...attantollani venaka pettukunte...
just an fyi jyotirao phule was a social reformer who educated women and lower caste people in 1800's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyotirao_Phule |
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Ramchander
Junior Artist Username: Ramchander
Post Number: 81 Registered: 02-2018 Posted From: 73.13.117.11
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 02:59 pm: |
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Siloan:dodda kaalla parugu
Super song brother. Doadda kaala ante endhi brother |
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Siloan
Legend Username: Siloan
Post Number: 57255 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 132.174.20.41
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 02:48 pm: |
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Ramchander:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtErSadcIPE dodda kaalla parugu |
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Jai_ycp
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Post Number: 13541 Registered: 04-2015 Posted From: 100.36.224.18
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 02:39 pm: |
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sad that these organizations of great name are descended into this? i hope they correct these things. |
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Ramchander
Junior Artist Username: Ramchander
Post Number: 80 Registered: 02-2018 Posted From: 73.13.117.11
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 02:36 pm: |
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Speaker:
baboyi mee gilludu lol. chill Speaker and brady brothers. |
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Tombrady
Legend Username: Tombrady
Post Number: 59166 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 216.163.220.32
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 02:11 pm: |
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Speaker:brokkehesss... enti meeeru feeekedi sinthakaay meeda thokka... just sinnaga gillithe adi noffi teleekunda...gaggolu edataaru meee batchie antha...meeru seppaaali ingitam gurinchi...l lodi... legu legehesss...item sodi..budaarekula batchie...
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Discoveringself
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Post Number: 2587 Registered: 01-2016 Posted From: 136.2.17.165
Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 02:10 pm: |
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okka "real" liberal raadu induloki...malla pseudo antey yedupu modaledathaaru... kikiki.....moorkhapu mogudu chepthey vinadu kodithey yesdusthaadu ani.........pseudo antey yedupu...alaa ani real issues lo keep distance......sickularly sickluar batch.....hahahha..... ikkada kids ni babies ni ammestunnaaru antey baadha ledu...aa swamy agnivesh gaadi meeda rendu mottikaayalesthey vachchindi.......hahahha.... |
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Speaker
Hero Username: Speaker
Post Number: 18858 Registered: 06-2016 Posted From: 205.194.127.36
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 02:09 pm: |
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Tombrady:ingitam gurinchi nuvve cheppali anyway time bokka neetho
brokkehesss... enti meeeru feeekedi sinthakaay meeda thokka... just sinnaga gillithe adi noffi teleekunda...gaggolu edataaru meee batchie antha...meeru seppaaali ingitam gurinchi...l lodi... legu legehesss...item sodi..budaarekula batchie... You are Either with Us or NOT with Us.. My Way or Highway....... |
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Tombrady
Legend Username: Tombrady
Post Number: 59163 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 216.163.220.32
Rating:  Votes: 6 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 02:06 pm: |
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Speaker:aa maatram ingitam kooda lekunda...attantollani venaka pettukunte... jyothyrao phoole..inkevvarevvaro kooda doodekula batchie ne emo ani anumaanam osthondi... ippudu...eti Theressa manchidayipoyindaaa eti???
ingitam gurinchi nuvve cheppali anyway time bokka neetho next time bend appa rao ni tidithe vachi adukokku antunna..teresa good or bad anedhi disco cheyyochu no issues alani support chesthe tittatam ento daivam elli indira ki mokkithe siggu leda anukovala? ento le nee item analysis |
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Speaker
Hero Username: Speaker
Post Number: 18854 Registered: 06-2016 Posted From: 205.194.127.36
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 02:02 pm: |
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Tombrady:monna friday adukonnav pls anakandi ani indirect ga ippudu identi?
aa maatram ingitam kooda lekunda...attantollani venaka pettukunte... jyothyrao phoole..inkevvarevvaro kooda doodekula batchie ne emo ani anumaanam osthondi... ippudu...eti Theressa manchidayipoyindaaa eti??? You are Either with Us or NOT with Us.. My Way or Highway....... |
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Moviebuff001
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Post Number: 8431 Registered: 06-2013 Posted From: 165.225.34.171
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 01:57 pm: |
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Without supporting the missionary, Kontamandi parents (or grand parents in this case)... pelli kani pillalu pregnanat ayyi late ga teliste, ilanti places lo pillalni kani, meere penchandi or evarikaina icheyandi ani cheptaru. Not uncommon in India. These nuns may have thought of making some money on the side. Roads meeda adukkune vallaki kakunda, evaraina pillalu lenu vallaki iste not worth punishing these nuns. |
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Tombrady
Legend Username: Tombrady
Post Number: 59160 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 216.163.220.32
Rating:  Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 01:55 pm: |
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Speaker:Crappy nayaallu crappy teressa bommetukoka edettukuntaareti??
monna friday adukonnav pls anakandi ani indirect ga ippudu identi? relax chill vuncle prathi post lo abuse lekunte post cheyyava |
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Tombrady
Legend Username: Tombrady
Post Number: 59159 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 216.163.220.32
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 01:54 pm: |
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christian missionaries lo jarige sexual abuses, child thefts ekkada vundav pasi pillali ni kidnap cheyyatam, abuse cheyyatam emi chesina church will expel they won't be charged, they have most barbarious laws p.s. spotlight movie example |
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Awesomedber
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Post Number: 4592 Registered: 04-2015 Posted From: 107.77.97.112
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 01:47 pm: |
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babu gogineni kudaa Mother teresa meeda edo annadu. Looks like he hates her . he quoted some books too. |
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Speaker
Hero Username: Speaker
Post Number: 18852 Registered: 06-2016 Posted From: 184.151.246.145
Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 01:47 pm: |
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Raman:
Theressaaa ne oka myth..oka crap... Crappy nayaallu crappy teressa bommetukoka edettukuntaareti?? Kikiki You are Either with Us or NOT with Us.. My Way or Highway....... |
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Maheshing
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Post Number: 254 Registered: 11-2013 Posted From: 131.107.160.230
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 01:43 pm: |
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chee daridrulu |
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Raman
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Post Number: 57221 Registered: 01-2009 Posted From: 171.60.192.244
Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 01:12 pm: |
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Speaker:
inganayam chiru father Theresa kabatti ee papam lo bhagam undi aneyyaledu  |
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Speaker
Hero Username: Speaker
Post Number: 18844 Registered: 06-2016 Posted From: 205.194.127.36
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 12:43 pm: |
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mother teressa is bull, crap & just a myth... she rode on her image... You are Either with Us or NOT with Us.. My Way or Highway....... |
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Rajusk
Legend Username: Rajusk
Post Number: 64206 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 170.74.231.21
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 12:20 pm: |
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Teluguhero:Mother Teresa: The Untold Story, by Aroup Chatterjee Amazon IN, Kindle IN, Amazon US The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, by Christopher Hitchens Paperback, Kindle, US
aa rendu pusthakalu evaraina chadivara ? |
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Teluguhero
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Post Number: 2812 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 76.106.197.158
Rating:  Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 11:00 am: |
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http://www.opindia.com/2018/07/mother-teresas-missionaries-o f-charity-decades-of-the-baby-bazaar/ There was a fair amount of shock and disbelief in many circles when news, on the 7th of July 2018, broke that a nun at Nirmal Hriday (a hospice established by Mother Teresa) in the town of Ranchi had been arrested and remanded to judicial custody by a court for allegedly selling a baby at the Nirmal Hriday home. According to another story, âArti Kujar, head of the Jharkhand State Child Protection Society, told Reuters that they suspect the home was charging upwards of $600 for each baby, depending on what the prospective parents could afford to pay.â Soon enough came the suitably shocked protestations from the Mother Teresa founded Missionaries of Charity, along with the expected disclaimer â âWe are shocked to know what has happened in our home⦠it is completely against our moral conviction,â Sunita Kumar, spokesperson for the Missionaries of Charity, stated. âWe are carefully looking into this matter. We will take all necessary precautions that it never happens again if it has happened.â Shortly thereafter came political cover to the aid of the Missionaries of Charity, when Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, on the 12th of July, tweeted her full support to the organization: A few news outlets, including Republic, however, continued to dig into the scandal, continually updating their site as more news trickled out, including confessional statements from the arrested nun. What caught my attention was was the statement by the Missionaries of Charity spokesperson, expressing shock at the trafficking of children that such a line of business would be âagainstâ their âmoral convictionâ. This article, however, is not about this particular episode of child trafficking, alleged or otherwise, by the Mother Teresa founded charity. Sonaton Dhar Let us take a journey decades old. To do that, let us take the assistance of Aroup Chatterjeeâs meticulously researched book, âMother Teresa: The Untold Story (which the Irish Independent, Dublin, called âPainstakingly recorded, (exposes) the other side of Teresaâ), and go back in time to 1980, when a seven-year-old Sonaton Dhar was sold to a Belgian Catholic couple for the princely sum of â¹Rs 125,000 (more then two-million rupees â twenty lakh â today after adjusting for inflation). How? Missionaries of Charity falsified records to enable the sale. What exactly were these falsifications? Missionaries of Charity showed Sonaton as an orphan. No, letâs correct that â Missionaries of Charity showed all three siblings as orphans. You see, Sonaton Dhar, his two sisters, and mother had been given shelter at Prem Daan â another of Mother Teresaâs hospices. Soon enough, the mother died, and all three children were promptly sold off to Belgian Catholics by the nuns at the hospice. This was a crime as per Indian law since Sonatonâs father and grandfather were still alive at the time, and neither had given their permission to the Mother Teresa charity to give away their children for adoption. From 1993 onwards, Sonaton Pauwels (as he was now named) made frequent trips to India to locate his sister. Sonaton visited Prem Daan âmany times but was told by nuns to forget his past and move on.â Sonaton, with the assistance of some journalists, managed to view his papers at the MC orphanage in 2002, where he found data had been falsified by the missionary outfit â that he was an orphan and that his grandmother had given him up for adoption. Both statements were false. Sonaton continued to investigate similar cases of child trafficking and found 74 such âorphansâ only in Belgium. In 2002, Dr Kunal De, a member of West Bengalâs Juvenile Justice Board, gave an interview for a documentary made by Anilabha Chattopadhyaya. In the interview, he implied that as this was Mother Teresaâs order, no charge or action would be forthcoming. The documentary can be viewed on YouTube â The Truth about Mother Teresa- Sanatan Powellâs Narrative True enough, nothing came from either Sonatonâs investigations or from the documentary. No investigation was ordered, no arrests were made, and no charges were ever filed. It was as if Mother Teresa and her outfit could never be accused of child trafficking, evidence be damned. It is not as if Mother Teresa was ever circumspect or apologetic about her priority â proselyting and religious activities came first. The hospices and shelters for the dying were at best a facade, a facilitator, for her main business â religious conversions. To take just one example, in â1974, the Missionaries of Charity (UK) received ï¿¡117,394 in donations. Of that amount, ï¿¡80,000 (68 per cent) they sent to âH.Q. Romeâ; another ï¿¡650 was sent to âBeda College (Religious Training) Romeâ. Child welfare in India got ï¿¡334 and Home for the Dying in Calcutta ï¿¡45.â That is, a total of less than one-third of one per cent of the funds received actually went to help the needy and dying. Indeed, in a private talk to some Americans, Mother Teresa gleefully boasted â âNot one has died without receiving a special ticket to St. Peter⦠Twenty-nine thousand have died in that one house⦠but itâs so beautiful to see those people dyingâ¦â. More sordid details about the squalid conditions at Mother Teresaâs homes have been documented in Aroupâs book. What happened if someone did try to investigate or dig deeper into the accounts of Mother Teresaâs businesses? When Aroup, in 2001, met Atanu Mukherjee, Registrar of Trusts, Societies, and Non-trading Corporation in Calcutta, he filled an application to view Missionaries of Charityâs files of accounts, which were public, and, in theory, open to any member of the public to view. Chatterjee told Aroup of an incident in the 1990s when a journalist had obtained the accounts of MC and published them. An octogenarian Mother Teresa had marched up to the Registrarâs office and given him âhell.â âThe following day, the Registrar got a phone call from some unnamed bigwigs asking him in effect to make the files unavailable to the public.â Aroup persisted in trying to obtain access to the public accounts of Missionaries of Charity. In reply to his letter in 2002, the Registrar sent a reply that contained Sister Nirmalaâs, then head of MC, response, in effect directing the Registrar to deny Aroup any access to the account of MC â âthat Chatterjee who has caused us a lot of trouble.â One would suppose that a putatively charitable organization would want the whole wide world to know more about their work and how frugally they spent their money and how every rupee, dollar, and pound was spent in the welfare of the dying and the destitute. Obviously, Missionaries of Charity thought differently. As Aroup caustically diagnosed the Indian malaise â âPusillanimity before the white man is the norm. ⦠Western vulgarities, such as MTV, have reached remote villages but Western standards of transparency have not touched the biggest institutions.â Perhaps the most poignant and pointed illustration of Indiaâs continued mental colonization and âpusillanimityâ was on parade for the entire world in 2016, when the government of India sent an official, 12-member delegation, to represent a billion Indians at Mother Teresaâs canonization at the Vatican â to honour a person whose mission in life had been to proselyte, convert through deceit tens of thousands of dying, allegedly sell hundreds of babies, deposit hundreds of millions of dollars received in donations in offshore bank accounts, write letters in support of the corrupt, invest not a single rupee in healthcare from those donations for the sick and dying. It has been more than a hundred years since Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore expressed a hope, a desire, a prayer to see his country awaken in a heaven âwhere the mind is without fear and the head is held highâ. India has not begun to take even small, tentative steps towards true freedom. News links: Missionaries of Charity nun arrested for âselling babyâ: Protesters seek CBI probe | The Indian Express Nun at charity founded by Mother Teresa arrested, accused of trafficking babies | Fox News, Baby Sale At Ranchiâs Missionaries: 22 Kids Of Charity Home Shifted Missionaries of Charity nun arrested for selling babies in Ranchi | Ranchi News-Times of India, Nun from Mother Teresaâs charity in India arrested on suspicion of selling baby â The Washington Post, Mother Teresa India charity home âsold babiesâ â BBC News Book links: âMother Teresa: The Untold Storyâ, by Aroup Chatterjee â Amazon IN, Kindle IN, Amazon US âThe Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practiceâ, by Christopher Hitchens â Paperback, Kindle, US |