Aroup Chatterjee

Aroup Chatterjee Biography

Aroup Chatterjee is a British Indian author and physician born and raised in Kolkata, who is best known for authoring Mother Teresa: The Untold Story, which criticized Mother Teresa’s deeds and  for promoting a "cult of suffering" and a distorted, negative image of Kolkata, exaggerating work done by her mission and misusing funds and privileges at her disposal. He also opposed Teresa's beatification and canonization.

The work originally published as Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict challenged the widespread regard of Mother Teresa as a symbol of philanthropy and selflessness. He also claimed that he never even saw any nuns in those slums of Kolkata, the city where her work was mostly concentrated. A documentary Hell's Angel was later made by Mother Teresa’s critic, Christopher Hitchens based on this book, and shown on Channel 4.

Aroup Chatterjee was born on 23 June 1958 in Kolkata. He spent his younger days in Kolkata and worked as an activist in the city's slums for years around 1980 before moving to the UK in 1985. He was associated with a left wing for his activities in Kolkata part-time to campaign against poverty. He was studying at Kolkata Medical College then. While living in UK, he was deeply concerned with portraying his birth city as a place of poor and diseased people. That’s how he began with the critic work on Mother Teresa and published as Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict.

With early 1990s, he started to uncover the activities of Mother Teresa and Christian missionaries. He also acted as Devil's advocate in the process of her sainthood. Currently he is settled in UK with his Irish wife and three children. He also practises as a physician in London.

Published: July 23, 2018

Updated: July 23, 2018