Dr. Aroup Chatterjee is the author of the book Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict which seeks to challenge the claim to fame of Mother Teresa as a symbol of selfless service. Aroup, a physician who formerly worked with the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, has accused her of unfairly damaging the reputation of the city of Kolkata. He also claims that she has dishonestly exaggerated the good work she has done among the poor, that she has failed to spend the very large amount of money donated to her on helping the poor and that the medical care given to people in her homes is grossly inadequate. He went public with his views in a documentary named Hell's Angel shown on Channel 4, a Britishtelevision channel, narrated by another known critic of Mother Teresa, Christopher Hitchens. The two were the only two official hostile witnesses to the church procedures for her beatification in 2003. The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Missionaries of Charity is a Catholic religious order established in 1950 by Nobel Peace Prize (1979) Winner Mother Teresa to tend to the sick and dying, especially, the poorest of the poor. Order has been founded in 1950. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). ... Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British journalist, author, and literary critic. ... In Catholicism, beatification (from Latin beatus, blessed, via Greek μακαÏιος, makarios) is a recognition accorded by the church of a dead persons accession to Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name (intercession of saints). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Mother Teresa- "The Mother of All Myths" (quoted from website)
Chatterjee Home page- "Mother Teresa has reduced my city to the slum capital of the world." (quoted from website)
AroupChatterjee is the author of the book Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict which seeks to challenge the claim to fame of Mother Teresa as a symbol of selfless service.
Aroup, a physician who formerly worked with the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, has denied her image as a compassionate human being and has accused her of seeking fame and wealth in the guise of helping the destitute poor.
He went public with his views in a documentary named Hell's Angel shown on Channel 4, a British television channel, narrated by another known critic of Mother Teresa, Christopher Hitchens.
AroupChatterjee, who had briefly worked in one of Mother Teresa's homes, began investigations into the finances and other practices of Teresa's order.
Chatterjee added that the public image of Mother Teresa as a "helper of the poor" was misleading, and that only a few hundred people are served by even the largest of the homes.
Chatterjee alleged that many operations of the order engage in no charitable activity at all but instead use their funds for missionary work.
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