Mother Teresa - Saint or A Delusional Christian Missionary ?

 Mother Teresa officially became a saint today after Roman Catholic Church canonised her today at Vatican City 19 years after her death. In the wake of this event anyone would like to know who Mother Teresa really was. Mostly she is depicted as an ideal nurse who looks after poor and needy without expecting anything in return but do we really know who she was? Lets try to put things in perspective.

Mother Teresa received a calling to work with the poor in the slums of Calcutta. There are significant number of controversies surrounding her life. In 1952 her Missionaries of Charity organisation started her Kalighat Home for the Dying – a place where people could come to die in dignity and comfort. She wanted to make it possible for ‘people who lived like animals to die like angels – loved and wanted’. 

In reality Mother Teresa had no formal medical or nursing training, she got into the field because some voice told her to. In fact when qualified doctors visited the home, however they found that the medical care provided was very poor. Most of the volunteers had no medical knowledge and yet had to make medical decisions because there were no doctors available. There was no distinction made between those who were suffering from curable and incurable illnesses so people who might have survived had they been given access to treatment were left to die. Needles were re-used so many times that they became blunt and they were not sterilised between uses. In 1981 when the state of care in her facilities was challenged she said ‘There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering.

Mother Teresa's primary and only goal was to spread christianity. Helping the needy was a facade. In her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech she said she helped 36,000 people in Calcutta but the facts suggest her charity only helped 5,700 people. There are many discrepancies in the organisation's finances and she seemed to accept donations from almost anyone. The amount of money she received was more than enough to care for the dying in the most sanitary and scientific way but she was more interested in the suffering.

Mother Teresa spent most of her times travelling to various places like USA, Japan and Ireland pushing for her agenda of anti-divorce and anti-abortion. She was hardly found in Calcutta. The most startling thing is Teresa who believed in sufferings as a way to be in touch with Jesus, spend her old age days in a modern, high class facility where she got the first class treatment.

In spite of all these facts, the intention of this article isn't to defame Mother Teresa or her practices. It is entirely possible and highly likely that she thought she was doing good to the humanity by preaching Christian values and baptising dying adults. However, in the end all that counts is the objective goodness that has been harnessed. Now it is for all of us to decide who Mother Teresa really was.

Nepalese-born Australian residents were the fastest-growing overseas-born community.

The new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the proportion of Australian residents born overseas has soared to its highest level in 120 years.

In 2015, more than 28 per cent of the population were born overseas, the largest proportion since 1895, according to the research released on Wednesday. The percentage has increased every year for the past 15 years.

Nepalese-born Australian residents were the fastest-growing overseas-born community. Their numbers have swelled more than 11-fold over the past 10 years, from just over 3800 people in 2005 to more than 43,500 in 2015.

Although their population is small compared to other overseas-born groups, the rate of increase - nearly 28 percent a year, on average - is well above other groups. For example, the next fastest growing groups - those born in Pakistan, Brazil and India - increased their numbers by around three-fold over the same period.

The steepest decline among the top 50 countries of birth was for Serbian-born residents, followed by those born in Poland.


As the chart above shows, the share of Australian residents born overseas last peaked in the late 1890s. Nearly 30 per cent of the population were foreign-born at the time following the first mining boom and the surge in Chinese migration in the gold rush era, according to Anna Boucher, a senior lecturer in the University of Sydney's School of Social and Political Sciences.

"Then there was the introduction of 'White Australia' and the effective closing of borders, with the exception of some Commonwealth migration, up until the post-war period," Dr Boucher said.

This explains the steep decline in the share of overseas-born Australians during the first half of the 20th century.

The dramatic turnaround in the mid-1940s reflects the shift to a mass migration policy, driven by a belief that Australia must "populate or perish" to survive in the post-war era. A new migration scheme aimed to increase the population by one percent a year.

The dip in the late-1970s relates to low migration intake under the Whitlam and Fraser governments. Since 2000, the figure has risen steadily. "The story there is around bipartisan support for temporary migration," Dr Boucher said - in particular, rapid increases in the number of working holiday makers and international students.

Australia ranks fourth among OECD countries for the largest proportion of overseas-born residents, behind Luxembourg (43.7 per cent), Switzerland (28.3 per cent) and New Zealand (28.2 per cent) according to 2013 statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

"Australia has traditionally had a high proportion of migrants, but we've now hit a peak not seen since the late 1800s," said Beidar Cho from the ABS.

Nepali-born nurse Pushpa Belbase, who joined her husband in Sydney in 1996, said the first few years were difficult but now, she wouldn't live elsewhere.

"It was hard to leave home - our parents are still over there; there was no one here to support us in that time … but now I feel like Australia is home," she said.

"Two of my children were born here. It's a better life than Nepal. It's easy to survive and you can get a good education here. I'm so happy we came."

source: Sydney Morning Herald

Nepal-China Relation, India Worried

Both China and India know that it is vital to keep making influence in Nepal from the strategical point of view. Nepal's more and more reliance to India because of its geographical limitations has provided India the upper hand in manipulating most of the internal affairs in Nepal. The prime example of which can be seen in the recent Indian blockade to Nepal done with the intention to give political pressure to change its fair and democratic constitution.

Nepali PM KP Oli's week long official visit to China has yielded some of the most significant Chino-Nepal deals of our times. The transit agreement between China and Nepal is expected to end the Indian monopoly of trade over Nepal. It will now also provide Nepal with the bargaining power in dealing with India.

Further, two highways from Nepal to Tibet, Chinese rail line linking Kathmandu and Lumbini, financial support to build international airport in Pokhara are included in the joint Nepal China statement.

Indian officials in Delhi observe this kind of prospect as a threat to its big brother attitude in the south east region. When asked about the subject to India's external affairs ministry spokesman, he said "now, we are not in the comparison business and even if you are, do ask yourself, is there any other country in the world which can have the kind of relationship that Nepal has with India?"

Why China Won't Invade Nepal

The bilateral relations between Nepal and the People's Republic of China have been friendly and defined by Nepal's policy of balancing the competing influence of China and Nepal's southern neighbour India, the only two neighbors of the Himalayan country.

One of the main reasons why China is not considering claiming any parts of Nepal is because there is a strategical tug-of-war on play between India and China for influence in Nepal. China has been significantly successful in reducing Indian influence in recent years. China's effort in doing so is even made easier by the vehement dislike by Nepalese people of the Indian interfence in Nepal's internal matters.

China saw this anti-India sentiment as an opportunity, and has exploited it with astonishing success. Now, however, if they start claiming parts of Nepal's territory, all this soft power will simply vanish, and Nepal will turn to India in order to counter the Chinese threat -- exactly as it had turned to China to counter what it saw as intrusive actions of India in Nepal.

In fact, this to-and-fro between China and India has been going on in Nepalese politics even when India was still British India. It resumed with new enthusiasm after the Chinese annexation of Tibet. India, however, was rather obtuse and instead of gradually increasing real influence in Nepal, repeatedly acted in ways that could be construed as interfering in Nepal's sovereign matters.
If China were to consider claiming Nepalese region(s) the foremost on the list would be Mustang region of Nepal. After all, the people of Mustang speak Tibetan, and consider themselves to be Tibetan in all socio-cultural dimensions.

But doing so now would be premature, and will definitely undo the inroads they have made into Nepal over the last three decades. Unlike India, I find it highly unlikely that China will act bluntly until its influence in Nepal is indisputably strong.

Constitutional monarchy and Hindu Kingdom must be in existence

Dirgha Raj Prasai

Kathmandu

Former Member of Parliament - Nepal

Since 2006, we Nepalese people are suffering from the traitors' regime. These evil elements want to Christianize in Nepal. The Congress, UML and Maoist are working the agendas of EU and CIA and just 7th August 2015, they declared secular state imposing by whips in parliament. Similarly, they imposed republic removing the identified symbol of Nepal-the monarchy. Actually, the nation is above the constitutionalism. Constitution is the only legal means to run a sovereign nation with legitimacy. Since the unification of Nepal this nation has operated

• under legal norms. Nepal has always run under a constitution. 
  But, India has been forcing Nepal since the Delhi agreement in 1950 for drafting a constitution through a Constituent Assembly (CA). The increasing nationalist forces in the nation and the
  inevitable fact that China would side with Nepal India was deterred. In 1958 the constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal was promulgated through a constitutional commission. The Indian concept of a CA that it had envisaged in 1950 was again raised for a new constitution, which in turn plunged Nepal into crisis. 
  Now, The CA has passed the new constitution without solving the aspiration of Nepalese people. However, the main objective of Constituent Assembly was to reject the 96 % Hindu, Buddha and OMkar family declaring the secularism ending the existence of the only one world Hindu kingdom and to end the identified symbol of Nepal's sovereignty and unity-the monarchy. The parties who are guided from RAW, CIA and EU have failed to keep intact the Nepalese nationality, democratic norms and identity in that new constitution. The reality is that in the name of CA, the foreigners want to break Nepal imposing the secularism to Christianize in this pious Hindu and Buddha land. The Nepalese people never support the suicidal agendas of secularism and republic in Nepal. So, it is necessary, the constitutional monarchy and Hindu Kingdom must be in existence in Nepal.