Namit Bajoria, an entrepreneur and admirer of St. Teresa of Calcutta

The sainthood conferred by Pope Francis on Mother Teresa of Calcutta on Sept. 4 here in the Vatican, was greeted with great enthusiasm and applause across the globe, including in India but especially in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, the capital of eastern India’s West Bengal state, that the Albania-born nun adopted as her home town.  A large  Indian government delegation, including Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Sushma Swaraj and West Bengal state Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, was in St. Peter’s Square where the Pope declared Mother Teresa a Saint.  Mmany of the delegation members were not Christians, a proof of the universal appeal and admiration that Mother Teresa enjoys among people of other faiths. 

‎Among the estimated 120,000 people from across the world present at the canonization ceremony was Mr. Namit Bajoria, a leading entrepreneur, philanthropist and also the Designate Honorary Consul of the Republic of Macedonia in Kolkata.  Mr. Bajoria, a non-Christian and an ardent admirer of Mother Teresa, has donated a life-size bronze statue of St. Teresa that was recently installed in Archbishop’s House, Kolkata, to mark the new saint’s 106th birth anniversary, August 26.  It was unveiled by West Bengal Chief Minister,  Mamata Banerjee.

A former student of St. Xavier’s College Kolkata, Mr. Bajoria, heads the Bajoria Group of Companies whose flagship brand Kutchina is a household name in modular kitchens and kitchen appliances in India.  In an interview to Vatican Radio, the alumnus of St. Xavier’s College Kolkata first explained that Kutchina is not all about business – it also has a serious social commitment.  

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