Sujatha Gidla: uncertainty

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…What is your opinion of Mother Teresa? The whole Christian missionary thing, it is part of white man’s burden, a prop for colonization. The white people who join those missionaries—not all of them are aware that we’re going there to get people’s support for our colonizers. There are people who are sincerely there to help people. Mother Teresa—I don’t know what her grand scheme was, but she really did a lot of good things in India. She’s now a big target for Hindutva people. They say that she’s an agent of imperialism, agent of colonialism. She’s someone who’s spoiling Indian culture, trying to convert people into Christianity. She’s a devil, and she doesn’t deserve to be canonized and things like that. Mother Teresa is a big target for Hindutva people. She did good things for us. She may have some other ideas, but they are not perceived by us. What we perceived is, she did a lot of good things. Next question, yes.…

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