Pope Francis finally canonized the controversial Mother Teresa made famous by BBC presenter Malcolm Muggeridge as a ‘Saint’ today – September 4th 2016 . RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat back in 2015 claimed that Mother Teresa’s charity work was merely subterfuge to convert poor and vulnerable people to Christianity:“It’s good to work for a cause with [...]
Often Hindus are accused of not being charitable.The Gurus, Swamis, babas and matas are portrayed as fraudsters only trying to make money out of the gullible public while Hindu organisations are promoted as extremists and terrorists. And individual Hindus are seen as just plain selfish.The Indian and Western media often portrays this image to the [...]
October 18, 2012
HHR
Dharma Seva
In 1993 Christopher Hitchens exposed the myth of Mother Teresa as a caring old woman helping India ’s poor with Christian charity. Yet the myth persists that her disease infested incarceration centres are in the forefront of Christianity’s civilising mission in Hindu-majority India . [...]
April 27, 2012
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights