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Author: The Land of the Wilted Rose (Rupa). Love & Honour; The Rat Eater (Bloomsbury). Soufflé (Penguin). Consulting Editor: Swarajya. RTs, Likes ≠ Endorsements

Aug 26, 2017, 9 tweets

29,000 have died in our one house since we began in 1952. We give them all the special ticket of St. Peter. [Laughter] - #MotherTeresa

The one book the admirers of #MotherTeresa wish had NEVER been written, is the one book that MUST be read. amazon.in/Missionary-Pos…

#MotherTeresa's must be the single-most successful emotional con-job of the 20th century. - Hitchens. [Clip voiceover, Dr Aroup Chatterjee]

"I'm happy beyond measure." What Bapu did to Ba is EERILY similar to what Teresa did to thousands - derive joy from the suffering of others

The one 'Paradise' account no one in the Indian media has the courage to talk about. Mother Teresa's. (h/t @attomeybharti) lastampa.it/2017/11/09/ita…

1/2 On January 15, 1934, a DEVASTATING earthquake, of Magnitude 8.4, struck Bihar.

THIS is why, said Mahatma Gandhi, the earthquake happened: It was a DIVINE CHASTISEMENT sent by God for our SINS.

Upwards of 30,000 died in that earthquake. 30,000 SINNERS books.google.co.in/books?id=335wC…

2/2 One man was incensed and DISGUSTED by what Mahatma Gandhi had said.

Rabindranath Tagore.

He shot off a letter to Bapu. Read Gurudev's words, AMAZING in their clarity and chastisement of the HORRENDOUS, almost criminal, illogic of Gandhi. books.google.co.in/books?id=335wC…

The Tagore–Gandhi Debate on the Bihar Earthquake. A magisterial essay by @MakrandParanspe, very profound in parts, but one whose thesis I beg to disagree with.

In my opinion, Prof Paranjape cushions what to me, is Gandhi's SIN. Do read. It is brilliant. citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…

One more feather in the cap for Mother Teresa, or as Hitchens called her, the single-most successful emotional con-job of the 20th century.

This is what she said when asked to comment on the Emergency: books.google.co.in/books?id=M9wPA…

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