NEW DELHI, India — Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun who became famous for her outreach to the poor in the slums of Calcutta, has been voted India’s greatest citizen in a magazine poll.
The survey published the week of Aug. 11 by Outlook magazine named Mother Teresa as the greatest Indian since the country’s independence in 1947. The results were based on more than 50,000 responses.
The well-known nun, who was an Albanian and eventually became an Indian citizen, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died in 1997 at the age of 87.
The magazine chose not to include India’s most well-known citizen, Mohandas K. Gandhi, saying it preferred to “keep the father of our nation above a voting process.”
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