Aroup Chatterjee
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Aroup Chatterjee (born Kolkata) 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.
Chatterjee, today a physician working in England, formerly worked with the Missionaries of Charity, the religious order founded by Mother Teresa. He has accused her of unfairly damaging the reputation of the city of Kolkata (Calcutta). In his book Chatterjee claims that Mother Theresa exaggerated the work she did among the poor, that she failed to use the very large amount of money donated to her on helping the poor and that the medical care given to people in homes run by Missionaries of Charity was grossly inadequate.
Chatterjee's criticism inspired a documentary named Hell's Angel that was shown on Channel 4, a British television channel. The documentary was written by a well-known critic of Mother Teresa, Christopher Hitchens, who co-produced it with Tariq Ali. Chatterjee has criticised the documentary for being sensationalistic, but has not commented on the veracity of its claims. Chatterjee and Hitchens were the only two official hostile witnesses to Church procedures for the beatification of Mother Teresa in 2003.
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- Chatterjee Home page
- Mother Teresa:The Final Verdict The Introduction and the first three chapters of Chatterjee's book are available here.
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