Now, had anyone else answered the above way, it would have been considered the crass, inhuman fundamentalism. But not so with Teresa of Calcutta. She could get away with putting the onus of forgiveness on the victims and trivialising their sufferings by magnifying the pet-crusade cause of the Church — battling abortions. She could get away with utter inhumanity towards fellow human beings who had been the victims of a colossal criminal negligence, particularly if that negligence is caused by someone sympathetic and fat in his cheque-book towards Christian charity. We now know that even as Bhopal gas tragedy struck, Warren Anderson was engaged in negotiations with one Indira Ayengar, a rabid Christian fundamentalist activist, as to how they could avert the public relations fallout by donating to the Missionaries of Charity. That institution of Teresa, of course, being acutely aware of the negative publicity it would bring upon, refused to oblige. But Teresa at once started singing the tune of forgiveness… (if it is an ‘accident’ as Teresa claimed, whom should the victims of Bhopal disaster forgive? God?)