Aroup Chatterjee
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However, drawing upon much of the actual research performed by Christopher Hitchens, and which remains unrefuted, Chatterjee also points out that Mother Teresa raised millions, often from tyrants and the wealthy whose largess she rewarded with assurances, and without any accounting or much to show for it. While she administered a large "work" -- at the time of her death in 1997, there were 4000 hospitals, orphanages, and care facilities, for the most part donated to her -- Chatterjee documents the fact that they have almost no "medical" equipment or pain killers. Poor people went to her to suffer and die, and Mother Teresa comforted them with the instruction that the pain was "a beautiful gift" enabling them to come closer to Jesus.
But for her part, when she suffered a heart attack on the occasion of her visit to Rome in 1987, she was provided with general anesthesia and a pace-maker. And she was given palliatives for pain in her final moments. Within months of her death, her instructions to burn her letters was disregarded, by her Catholic "counselors". Her letters reveal the stony admission that she found it impossible to believe in God who had never answered her lifetime of prayers.
Chatterjee is a Bengali physician living in Britain, married to the psychiatrist Zelpha Kittler. Their three children are scientists. The book was used in the script for the film "Hell's Angel" (1994), directed by Tariq Ali.… (lisätietoja)