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'City of Joy ' author Dominique Lapierre critically ill | | Internationally renowned author Dominique Lapierre is critically ill. According to his friend in Kolkata, Jesuit Father
Gaston Roberge, Lapierre fell down at his home in France and has been in a coma
for several days now. Father Roberge said the Padma Bhushan recipient is on ventilator
and other artificial life support systems. The doctors, Father Roberge added,
fear that Lapierre’s illness, which has affected his brain, could be terminal.
A long time well wisher of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, Lapierre’s
Kolkata connection dates back to his bestseller book ‘The City of Joy,’ based
on life in this teeming metropolis and his critical film on Mother Teresa (the
first feature film on Mother Teresa, released in 1997), ‘In the Name of God’s
Poor’. A large portion of the royalties of his books have been ploughed back into
his social service NGO, Udayan, on the outskirts of Kolkata and in setting up
floating dispensaries for the people of the Sunderbans. A prayer meet will be
held at the tomb of the Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata, at the headquarters
of Missionaries of Charity, for the speedy recovery of Lapierre tomorrow.
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