It was an assignment during my time with Doordarshan in the early 1990s. Mother Teresa was in Bangalore – as it was called then – and DD, the only Indian television network at that time, was sending out camera teams and reporters to cover her wherever she went. I wasContinue Reading
New Delhi: External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday called on Pope Francis at the Vatican. “Stronger ties with the Holy See. EAM @SushmaSwaraj called on @Pontifex at the Vatican, on her final day in Rome,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted. Sushma Swaraj visited Rome to attend theContinue Reading
Kolkata: When Mother Teresa’s canonization took place on Sunday, a battered-looking audience gathered in front of a screen some 4,500 miles east of St. Peter’s Square: men with caved-in chests, weeping sores wrapped in gauze, extremities missing entirely, legs so thin you could encircle them with a finger and thumb.Continue Reading
Borduria, Arunachal Pradesh: Borduria, the only place Mother Theresa visited in Arunachal Pradesh joined global celebration of her elevation to Sainthood on 4 September 2016 with procession and installing a statue of the Saint. A small village in Tirap District of Arunachal Pradesh, Borduria, which literally means ‘Far away land’,Continue Reading
Kolkata: A few minutes past 2 p.m. on Sunday, thousands gathered at Mother House in Kolkata erupted in joy the very moment Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a Saint at the Vatican. Clapping, loud cheers and sounds of bells rent the air around the three-storied house in heart of theContinue Reading
New Delhi: For churches across Delhi, the elevation of Mother Teresa to sainthood is a time of celebration. All the major Roman Catholic churches are being bedecked with flower and special illumination for Sunday afternoon when Pope Frances canonizes her as St Teresa of Calcutta. The day will also seeContinue Reading
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday expressed happiness over the forthcoming canonisation of Mother Teresa and said every Indian will take pride in the recognition being accorded to her for service to humanity and God. “Every citizen of Indiawill take pride in the recognition being accorded to Mother TeresaContinue Reading
The St Olav’s Church, West Bengal has won UNESCO’s Award of Distinction for conservation. Of the six countries presenting 13 projects, India walked away with four awards. Awards of Merit were handed to Cama Building, Mumbai Central and Mahidpur Fort, Madhya Pradesh while for the restoration of the Main Building,Continue Reading
Appropriately no doubt, Pope Francis himself offered a simple pathway to understanding Mother Teresa’s lifetime of work. She ran in essence, he said, a “field hospital”. True, the war on poverty will not be won from a field hospital, and nobody should expect it to. But those wounded by theirContinue Reading
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun is widely seen as a humanitarian icon across the South Asian nation, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying “it is natural for every Indian to take pride” in her sainthoodContinue Reading
