Christian proselytising among the tribal population in India, their obstruction of the work of the Ramakrishna Mission in the North-east and their fundamental agenda of world-domination through conversion notwithstanding, I reserve the deepest reverence for Mother Teresa who, being a Catholic nun and, so, by default and by conviction, though a part, wittingly or unwittingly, of the whole Catholic agenda of the aforesaid global religious domination, rose above narrow sectarian interests reeking of religious politics to embrace the whole of humanity in her broad motherly sympathies whose sanctity and genuineness I can personally unhesitatingly endorse. And so have I brought my heart's adoration at the feet of this remarkable saint whose life and living in austere recollection of the Lord and ceaseless loving service thereof places her above the pettiness of politics which so unfortunately is being these days labelled against her being.
Mother Teresa of Albania and Ethiopia, of Nazareth and Nigeria, of the States and the People's Republic of China, and of India and the rest of the dispossessed world, shines with undimmed lustre in every pore of my being. My heart's ardour at her hallowed feet !
Written by Sugata Bose
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