Mother Teresa (13) The Television Interview Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

During 1968, an English Journalist,
Malcolm Muggeridge, also a satirist,
Who was working by then in India,
Took an interview with Mother Teresa.

It was a horrible experience
For him to see the lepers,
The children, the diseased,
The battered and the unwanted.

Inside the House of Dying,
When his crew was filming,
The light was too poor,
For the events to cover.

They had filmed anyway,
Whatever possible that day,
But lost hopes of the shots
Taken in dim-poor lights.

When they filmed lepers,
His eyes were full of tears,
To see them printing pamphlets
In the House of Printing Presses.

They filmed the House of Children,
Schools and hostels, one by one,
Despite unfavorable condition,
That retarded their shots then.

“If filming is part of God’s plan
He’ll take care of His intention, ”
So said Mother Teresa calmly
When they wound up finally.

To scrap them, they were ready,
But they turned out beautifully.
As there was massive welcome,
BBC had to repeat this program.

Mother wasn’t for any money,
But it came to her in plenty
When people came to know,
After this successful show.