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The Connoisseur

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Mother Teresa Unit III

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Nergis Dalal has been writing for over fifty years. She is the author of four novels, a collection of short stories, a book for children, a cookery book, a best selling book on yoga and, under the pseudonym Aries, a collection of middles that appeared over three decades in the 'Times of India', the 'Statesman', the 'Hindustan Times' and other national newspapers. Several of her short stories have been broadcast over the BBC and published in anthologies in India, UK and Australia.

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 Nargis Dalal is one of the most prominent woman writers in

• India. She brought out four novels in 60s and 70s.

 Nergis Dalal combines successful novel, short-story, and

article writing with being a gourmet cook of more than thirty years experience.

 Nergis Dalal has three children and three grandchildren. She

lives in Dehra Dun.

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Novels Minari The Sisters The Inner Door The Girls from Overseas Skin Deep Short Stories The Nude and Other Stories

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 Yoga

Yoga for Rejuvenation

 Cookery

100 Easy-to-Make Puddings

 For children

The Birthday Present

 'Middle' articles

Never a Dull Moment (a small selection of short humorous pieces based on her own life, from over a thousand published in newspapers over the years)

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 The Connoisseur is a light-hearted story.

 A connoisseur is someone competent to pass critical judgment.  A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine

arts or cooking or wine.

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 In this short story, we come face to face with a dyed-in-the-

wool kleptomaniac old lady, Maya alias Ms. Krishna, who has a passion for collecting beautiful items, and my word, she does have good taste!

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The Writer and Ms. Krishna meet at an art exhibition

• Ms. Krishna, a nervous and hyperactive old lady is quickly,

drawn towards the writer, who is a widow living singly.

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 Ms. Krishna has painful and miserable past

– an ailing and partisan mother who perversely showered all her love and affection on her younger daughter

 All her memories about her childhood are ugly – poverty,

unclean household and especially her mother’s attitude.

 Ms. Krishna eventually remains unmarried even after getting

her sister married and the death of her mother

 She gradually cultivates a hobby of appreciating and collecting

beautiful items.

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 The writer develops a kind of sympathy and pity for

• Ms. Krishna and even invites Ms. Krishna for a cup of tea at

the end of their visit to the exhibition.

 In the following days, the writer maintains an attitude of

and tolerance towards this old lady considering her past.

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 Ms. Krishna continues her visits to the writer’s house on a

regular basis.

 One day Ms. Krishna informs the writer that she is getting

her house painted and it is not easy for her to live in the disarray of her house.

 The writer asks her to come and stay with her for a few days

and Ms. Krishna jumps at the opportunity and moves in with her bag and baggage the very next day.

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 The writer observes that Ms. Krishna has a large collection of

many valuable and beautiful little things which she secretly appreciates behind the closed doors of her room every day.

 She proves herself to be a very annoying guest - moving

about the house, complaining endlessly about many things and constantly irritating the writer with her nonsensical talk and improper behaviour.

 Once, during her visit to Mrs. Lal, the writer accidentally

makes an astonishing discovery about Ms. Krishna.

 She now understands the secret behind Ms. Krihsna’s

treasure – that she actually steals these little things.

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 One day, the writer goes to see Ms. Krishna on learning that

she is not well. But, it is too late and the writer finds her dead after suffering a heart attack.

 Ms. Krishna’s sister arrives in time for the funeral and reveals

that Ms. Krishna left everything she had to the writer through a will that she wrote a few days ago.

 The writer politely informs her that she is just an

acquaintance of Maya and refuses to take anything as it is not fair to do so. Maya’s sister starts behaving politely with the writer since she iss the next beneficiary of the property.

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 As both of them have a full view of the treasure of

• Ms. Krishna, the writer asks for the sister’s permission to

take something in memory Ms. Krishna.

 Much to the relief of the sister, she takes her own little clock

that she lost a few days ago when Ms. Krishna stayed with her for a few days!

 Miss Krishna is surely a connoisseur for she has indeed a very

fine taste for beautiful things. She also has the habit of collecting such beautiful little things.

 The title perfectly suits her though in an ironical way because

this kleptomaniac old lady actually steals any item that she likes and puts them in her large hand bag which she purposefully carries.

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BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Mother Teresa’s actual name was Agnes Gonxh xhe Bojaxhiu iu

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She was Albanian by birth and was born on 26th August 1910 to Nicolle and Drana.

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Agnes lost her father when she was barely eight. Her mother raised her as a Roman Catholic and used to narrate stories from the lives of great servants to Christianity.

Agnes was fascinated by the stories of the lives of missionaries and their

• service. Inspired by these, she decided to commit herself to religious life.

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Joined the sisters of Loretto as a missionary and learnt English

Loretto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland

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Agnes arrived in India in 1929 and began her work in a school of the Sisters of Loretto in Darjeeling, near the Himalayan Mountains

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On May 24, 1931 she took her first religious vows as a nun and chose the name Teresa after Therese de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries She also took her solemn vows on May 14, 1937 while serving as teacher at the Loretto convent school in eastern Calcutta

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The great Bengal famine in 1943 brought death and misery to the city

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The outbreak of communal violence in 1946 plunged the city into despair and horror

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These two tragedies greatly disturbed Mother and inspired her decision to leave the convent and start her work with the poor she experienced “a call from within ” which she considered to be the command of God The slums of Motijhil, Calcutta where she began a school I 1948 and started attending to the needs of the poor and the destitute

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Teresa started the missionaries of charity in 1950 its primary objective was to care for the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers

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Orphanages started by Mother

Homes for the aged for the destitute

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Malcolm Muggeridge was the author of the book on Mother Teresa, “Something Beautiful for God” which was also made into a documentary film with the same title. These two played a great role in making the Mother known internationally which paved the way for the Nobel Prize to be awarded to her in 1979

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In March, 1997 she stepped down from the head of missionaries of charity after suffering a fracture to her collar bone in April 1996 and malaria and heart problem in August

Eventually died in September 1997

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A miracle, the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra following the application

• f a locket containing Teresa’s picture was approved by the Vatican

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At the time of her death in 1997, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity was operating 600 missions in 120 countries Sister Nirmala leading the Missionaries of Charity

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