Satan (not Mother) Teresa called them “homes for the poor”. She said they were places of love and care. But the truth was very different. Her orphanages and ashrams in Calcutta and other parts of India were not safe places at all. They were kidnapping centres and conversion factories.
Poor Hindu parents trusted her completely. They saw the woman in the white saree and believed she would feed their hungry children and give them a better life. They brought their sons and daughters to her doors thinking they would get food, clothes and love. Instead, the children walked into a trap. Once the children went inside, they never came out the same.
Once inside, the kids were not treated like children. They were treated like prisoners. Tiny hands were tied to the beds so they could not run away. The rooms were packed like cattle sheds. Five to eight children were forced to sleep on one small cot. There was no space to move. In Shishu Bhavan, the main children’s home in Calcutta, it was common to see five to eight children forced to sleep on one small cot. There was no space to move or breathe. Bottles, beakers and spoons were shared among all the children. When a baby dirtied itself, the nuns used the same dirty cloth to wipe one bottom after another, passing it from child to child. Sickness spread like fire. Bottles, beakers and spoons were shared by everyone, passing germs from child to child.
No proper milk was given to the babies. The milk given to the babies and toddlers was a cheap substandard powder called Monidyne. It came in white tins with a blue border, made specially for Satan (not Mother) Teresa’s homes by a Belgian company. It had very low nutrition. Many babies grew weak and died because this was their only food before they were old enough for solid meals. Many babies cried day and night from hunger, but no one cared. The nuns said suffering was good for the soul. Many babies and children became weak and died slowly from hunger.
The children were not treated like human beings. In one home called Daya Dan in Calcutta, an investigative journalist went inside with a hidden camera in 2005. He filmed children left alone on toilets for long hours. He filmed children whose hands were tied while they were being fed like animals. He filmed one child tied to a cot with a rope all night. These were clear acts of cruelty.
Parents who tried to visit were often turned away. Some were told their child had “gone to heaven”. Others were never allowed to see their son or daughter again. The children were brainwashed so completely that many forgot their own names, their own language, and their own families. They were turned into Christian slaves who would one day work for the Church or be sent abroad.
In 1996, a poor woman stood crying outside Shishu Bhavan with her two small children. She had lost her home and only wanted shelter for one night. The nuns refused unless she signed away all her rights as a mother and gave the children to the Missionaries of Charity forever.
But the worst part was not just the dirt or the hunger. It was the forced conversion. The nuns had one clear job: turn every child into a Christian. They started the very first day.
Prayers to Jesus were forced every morning and every night. If any child whispered his old Hindu or Muslim prayer, or cried for his parents’ god, he was beaten with a stick or locked in a dark room without food. The nuns told them clearly: “Your parents’ religion is false. Your old gods are devils. Jesus is the only true god. Forget your family. This is your new home now.”
Many children were baptised secretly. The nuns would take a child aside, pour water on his head and say the Christian words even if the parents had never agreed. They gave the children new Christian names and told them their Hindu or Muslim names were sinful. Older children were told they would get better food or new clothes only if they agreed to become Christian. Those who refused were punished harder.
These were not orphanages. These were factories. Factories that stole Indian children, broke their spirit, and sold their souls to a foreign god. Hindu and Muslim families lost their blood and their future while the world praised Satan (not Mother) Teresa as a saint.
She was no saint. She was the same Satan who had landed in Calcutta. Behind the white saree and the gentle voice was a cold plan to wipe out India’s faith one child at a time.
And the worst was yet to come. Read the blog episode 3 of this article series. You are reading Blog Episode (BE 2) of series Mother Teresa: The Satan Who Wore a White Saree – The Demon of Calcutta
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