Christopher Hitchens

City of doubts: Kolkata's uneasy love for Mother Teresa

A new report claims to uncover the dark side of Mother Teresa. But most media in the city she calls home have largely ignored it. 15 years after her death, Kolkata still struggles to come to terms with the legacy of the nun.

Hitchens: The man who called Mother Teresa a fraud

Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes on the left and right.

Christopher Hitchens passes away at 62

Christopher Hitchens died Thursday in Houston. He was 62. The legendary writer was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2010.

On Gandhi-bashing: the Western writer's latest fad

Christopher Hitchens is the latest Western writer to savage the father of our nation. But this kind of vitriol reveals more about him and his Western audience than about Gandhi.