Cedric da costa wrote on goanet: Despite doing so much to lift the downtrodden an Ungrateful India is yet to acknowledge the services done by Mother Theresa...by giving her some lasting honour...why? just because she was from a minority community or just because she was a foreigner?
The above comments are not founded on facts. The Indian Nation has duly recognised and acknowledged the services of Mother Teresa by conferring her with several National honours. Mother Teresa received her first honour in 1963 with the Padmashri Award being conferred upon her. She also received over 50 National and international awards since her Nobel Prize in 1979, including the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International peace (1972) and the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award (1993). She is also one of the select few 40 Indians who is the proud recipient of the "Bharat Ratna", the Nation's highest Civilian award that is awarded for the highest degrees of National service. After she breathed her last, the government of India gave her a befitting tribute with a state funeral that was also aired live on the National Television channels. The Indian people too voted her as India's greatest icon after Mahatma Gandhi in a Nationwide survey that was conducted some years back by "India Today". Cedric's remarks against the Indian Nation are therefore unfortunate, disappointing and uncalled for. Cheers Sandeep