The Missionary Position

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• Why Calcutta?

  Among the welter of images and mythologies that constitute the middle-class Bengali’s consciousness – P3 and Ganesh underwear, the Communist hammer and sickle, Lenin’s face, fish and vegetable chops outside the Academy, wedding and funeral invitation ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

• The Shadow Saint

  Eric Partridge has informed us that “the missionary position” is an expression of South Sea islander coinage. If Christopher Hitchens did not share the widespread misapprehension of blasphemous intent in his grand remonstrance against Mother Teresa, ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

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  Closer to a prosecutor's opening statement than the actual case, the book has some interesting anecdotes (which I believe illustrate real problems), but the author clearly hates Mother Theresa and doesn't bother to rigorously prove his thesis. But it's an easy read that makes for a good starting po ... (continue)

  Closer to a prosecutor's opening statement than the actual case, the book has some interesting anecdotes (which I believe illustrate real problems), but the author clearly hates Mother Theresa and doesn't bother to rigorously prove his thesis. But it's an easy read that makes for a good starting point for further research.

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  Sometimes even a good heart can do bad things and especially religious zealots. Of course, one has to trust the journalism of the author and his integrity, but the spartan conditions of Mother Teresa's hospices are famous and one has to be another zealot to be able to live there. Then again religi ... (continue)

  Sometimes even a good heart can do bad things and especially religious zealots. Of course, one has to trust the journalism of the author and his integrity, but the spartan conditions of Mother Teresa's hospices are famous and one has to be another zealot to be able to live there. Then again religious flagellation is not unknown.

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• English Books
• Paperback 98 Pages
• Edition: Reprint
• ISBN-10: 185984054X
• ISBN-13: 9781859840542
• Publisher: Verso
• Pub date: Apr 01, 1997
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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