Missionary position by Christopher Hitchens
Book review
Non fiction
Rating 4/5
No spoilers
Of the innumerable books on Mother Teresa there may be only a few which are against the tide and wave.
Since I want to sound politically and otherwise correct let me just start by a discalimer that the work is just a reproduction of the view of the author and not my own.
So it starts by dissection of Mother’s charity work then her Noble prize then her act of forgiveness! And the tongue in cheek humour of naming the book after a known sexual position hardly seems to be a coincidence!
It is a real change of the scenario where the whole narrative is one banter after another about demystifying every single feature of the Mother and her work.
Christopher has already worked on a documentary called Hell’s Angels and you can guess the tone of that one so his disdain to the Mother is not a secret!
Christopher even has lots to say about Mother and her forgiveness! How it’s actually something more!
Her association with the dirty money and people who have sinned has also been touched upon and how!
But at the end of it all since Christopher is a well known figure in the literary world it is evident that less words are enough to convey the required information! So it’s just around 100 pages!
At this juncture it is prudent to read another book by Dr Aroup Chatterji called Mother Teresa the untold story which is like the complete movie to the preview which is this book so you might want to check that out if you want to get the detailed analysis of each and every dissection so to speak!
All in all a different read and perspective!
Controversy bomb just exploded!
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