When I was in school, there was a chapter on Mother Teresa(MT) in my text book. I was taught how great human being MT was. By reading a chapter on MT, I too was impressed and throughout my student age I continued to have an impression that MT was like God walking on this planet.

Thankfully, I have grown up, and I’m realizing the reality today. I can easily conclude now that MT’s lesson in my text book was purposefully injected, and that could be surely a smart work of those who want to ultimately convert this nation to Christianity, like they did in Latin America, Africa, South Korea, like they have done in north east India and south India, like they have done in Gujarat’s Vyara or Dang and in many other parts of the world.

The lesson(still being taught) in the text book creates an impression that if white Christian missionary travels to India from foreign land, he/she does so to serve the people here. He/she sacrifices his/her life for poor and hungry person of our nation. And what a smart work? Each and every child in this country who goes to school, studies MT’s chapter in text book and start believing in her, and thus in missionaries.

They the men from missions actually come to India to convert the people here. And by doing this, ultimately they start dictating everything. In Kerala the Church dictates voters prior to election time openly.

The problem with MT’s charity work was that, conversion activity was involved under the wrapper. The other point is that her activities were over hyped, and purposefully marketed.

While religious conversion is legal in this nation, and hyping somebody’s charity is also legal, our problem should be that, the government jumps in this band wagon as an instrument, an agent and also as catalyst.

The latest is Mother Express initiative of central government. A whole train with moving exhibition about MT is being run by central Railway ministry.

Who pays for it? A tax payer.

Who visit it? Children and teachers of Christian missionary operated schools, newly convert or those in pipeline of conversion process, and ofcourse many other curious visitors.

Incidentally, the Mother Express entered in Gujarat exactly on the birth anniversary day of Shri Thakkarbapa.

Thakkarbapa was Gandhian social worker who devoted his life to tribal upliftment in remote corners of Gujarat. The service that Thakkarbapa offered to tribal people of Gujarat was amazing. Thakkarbapa never liked the motives of Christian Missionary ‘Muktifauj’, but Bapa didn’t attack ‘Muktifauj’ in Bajrang Dal style. Instead he started serving the tribals in far flung areas by establishing ashrams and schools there. Even today, wherever Thakkarbapa’s ashram are functioning, the missionaries are not there.

And like Thakkarbapa, there are many other who worked for upliftment and betterment of lives of poor people of this country. Even if I look around me just randomly, there are names like Jalaram bapa or Mekran dada who deserve ‘Bapa express’ and ‘Dada express’. It is our failure that we don’t promote these and many other selfless workers nationwide, against planted, funded, hyped and government supported promotions of MT.

One of the tendencies we the people posses is that we are impressed by everything that comes from abroad. Perhaps because we were ruled for about two centuries by whites. Our Yog was very much in existence, but when the western world started recognizing it by saying ‘Yoga’, we too started respecting ‘Yog’ as ‘Yoga’. We are impressed with MT as she got Nobel prize, but who knows whether that too was a global plan of influencing the people here, with prize as tool?

Why can’t there be a nationwide express train with moving museum on Aadi Shankaracharya?

Suppose if we demand such train, the ministry would definitely refuse it by saying that – India is secular country.

Interestingly, if we question why govt is operating Mother Express, or providing Haj subsidy, the government would give same answer that – India is secular country!

While figures of expenses behind Mother Express are not available at this time, the cost borne by the Government for Haj in 2007, 2008 and 2009 was approximately Rs.476.75 crore, Rs.894.77crore and Rs.689.91crore respectively. Now this is official figure taken from parliament records.

We don’t know whether central Railway minister Mamta Banerjee started this Mother Express to please Sonia Gandhi or not. Mamta has asked centre to release new coin projecting MT. We can’s understand that if MT was active in Bengal, and that thing excites Mamta as she is also from same state, then why didn’t Mamta demand a new coin projecting Swami Vivekananda or Ramkrishna Paramahansa?

Lastly, in inaugural function of Mother express, the Railway Passenger Amenities Committee chairman Derek O’Brien, while sharing his attachment with Mother Teresa, said that Sonia Gandhi had sent him a message wishing Mother’s birth centenary programmes all success.

If you didn’t spot something interesting in last two lines given above, then read it again.