• 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 worldโ€”on a silver (well, probably gold-plated) Western platter. If youโ€™ve grown up hearing her name invoked in every moral sermon and school essay about โ€œcompassion,โ€ youโ€™ll understand the delicious satisfaction of reading Aroup Chatterjeeโ€™s The Untold Story. Finally, someone opens the curtains on the sanctified showโ€”and what we find behind it isnโ€™t 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…