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Holy Hype: Deconstructing the Mother Teresa Narrative
Ah, Mother Teresa. That ever-glowing saint from the gutters of Calcutta who apparently served India by showcasing her poverty to the worldโon a silver (well, probably gold-plated) Western platter. If youโve grown up hearing her name invoked in every moral sermon and school essay about โcompassion,โ youโll understand the delicious satisfaction of reading Aroup Chatterjeeโs The Untold Story. Finally, someone opens the curtains on the sanctified showโand what we find behind it isnโt quite divine. Dr. Chatterjee, a physician from Kolkata, offers not a book, but a scalpel. He cuts clean through the decades of media adulation and exposes something that every thinking Indian ought to have suspected: that the “Saint…