14 Facts About Aroup Chatterjee

Aroup Chatterjee was born on 23 June 1958 and is a British Indian author and physician.

Aroup Chatterjee was born in Calcutta, and moved to the United Kingdom in 1985.

Aroup Chatterjee is the author of the book Mother Teresa: The Untold Story, a work which challenges the widespread regard of Mother Teresa as a symbol of philanthropy and selflessness.

Aroup Chatterjee was born in 1958 and raised in the city of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, before moving to the United Kingdom in 1985.

In February 1993, Aroup Chatterjee sent a proposal for a short documentary to Vanya Del Borgo, associate producer of Bandung Productions which was owned by Tariq Ali.

The proposal was passed to a Channel 4 commissioner who approved it, and Del Borgo with Aroup Chatterjee's proposal began work, approaching journalist and author Christopher Hitchens to write and present it.

Aroup Chatterjee found the documentary "too sensationalist" and Hitchens went on to write his book The Missionary Position.

Aroup Chatterjee spent the next year travelling and interviewing people who had worked closely with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity and began to campaign against the conditions in Nirmal Hriday, known as the Kalighat Home for the Dying in Calcutta.

Aroup Chatterjee then began work on a book, eventually released by Meteor Books in 2002 under the original title Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict.

Aroup Chatterjee continues to work as a physician in London where he lives with his Irish wife, who was raised as a Catholic, and their three children.

Aroup Chatterjee covers her Nobel Peace Prize and the speech in which she claimed to have saved tens of thousands of destitute people; Chatterjee estimates in his book the real number was 700.

Aroup Chatterjee writes about the celebrities and the powerful people who had audiences with her, and the controversies surrounding the money she accepted from dictators such as Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier, convicted fraudster Charles Keating and disgraced publisher Robert Maxwell.

Aroup Chatterjee blames the West, especially the United States, for creating her benevolent image as a saviour in the backdrops of a ravaged subcontinent.

Aroup Chatterjee pointed out the cure was a result of medical treatment Besra received from superintendent of the Balurghat Hospital and not the placing of metal jewellery on her body.