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16.07.2008, 11:00 am …
(RAW head quarters, New Delhi)

Hey, long time no see! I am Deoxy Ribose, friends call me DNA. Whose DNA? Well I am the DNA of about whom the former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar said: “She is the United Nations. She is peace in the world!” Though hardly people know her by her maiden name, she is renowned and revered and respected and loved as ‘Mother Teresa’. I am being taken in to a high security zone, where I am being accompanied by DNA’s of some other influential people of India. Why, well only time will tell……

16.07.2015, 4:30 am …
(Specialized Forensic Research Labs, Bangalore)

Hi, do you remember me? I met you many years back. I think it’s time to come out. What happened? Only thing I know is that the Indian Govt. due to poor monsoons and declining stocks of food has declared a famine. All over the country, in various places, there is a look of hopelessness as the number of people dying of hunger has swelled. I seriously think that this problem of hunger and suffering should have been alleviated several decades back. But it seems beggars on the street have not reduced and now look like flies around a single piece of jaggery, they have all surrounded the governments ration supplies which is evaporating in thin air. People have resorted to rioting and stealing, a state of emergency, everything seems to have spun out of control!

I can feel some frantic activity outside this freezer. Let me tell you what happened on that night 7 years back. I was inside a tiny strand of hair which they had cut out from the remains of Teresa’s body. They are taking me to the Forensic Laboratory, where they intended to trigger some reactions through the information contained in me, to bring to life, none other than the long lost ‘humanitarian’, who discovered her call in the 1940’s under some similar circumstances, when Kolkata went through famine and Hindu Muslim rioting, plunging that city in to a state of shock!

Well I think they have now decided to bring me to light. Oh my, it seems the nation’s medical fraternity and the scientists are here to speak life in to me. I am a molecule which under the lens looks like a twisted ladder and the rungs of this ladder are called nucleotides which carry all the information required to trigger a reaction to produce a resurrected Mother. Nucleotides come in four forms, namely A, T, G and C. Their sequence gave out the crucial information to bring in to existence the same mother that we lost many years back. The same tiny frame, and if given the time, then the same wrinkles on the face with a long nose, protruding bones and a body perfected to copy the original. The sequence of the nucleotides is called genes which give out information to regenerate every part of her body.

Well they had injected me in to a cell and placed it carefully in a womb. It seems the reactions triggered by me worked, giving re-birth to none other than Mother Teresa. In this process, there were lot of changes that they made to her body, one was her eye colour, some said that the original brown eyes should be retained, while some young doctors suggested that it should be green, to flaunt mankind’s victory over Human Genome, which is the complete set of a mans genes. Finally they have decided to keep it green! You might be thinking, how this is possible. Yes, it is. Every human has two copies of each gene, one from each parent, called allele, for each organ or growth. Mother seems to have inherited the brown one but there is still a copy of the green one in her which she inherited from her mother and taking that one with another supporting allele they will create this new mother with green eyes! Wonder how I will make mother look!

16.07.2045, 11:00 am …
(RAW Specialized Hi-tech Cell, Kolkata)

Its been 30 years since that fateful night, and Agnes, sorry Teresa, has grown into a young lady under the care of an Albanian family. All this was done under cover – a secret mission! They had picked me for this urgent mission, called in to action by none other than the President of the country. There was nobody to lead the humanitarian help and whatever limited personnel were available were not able to plan and implement this humongous task. Moreover, they also needed someone who could bring some calm and win the people’s respect. Who better than Nobel Peace Prize winner!

The new Teresa perhaps needs some last minute touch ups before she can be revealed! They have wired her to a state of the art device which is transferring a lot of data (memory) into Teresa’s young brain. She is unconscious but her brain is taking in a lot of data that experts had derived from the autobiographies and biographies and other accounts of the real Mother Teresa’s life!

Now the whole group of doctors and scientists has gathered to open the huge casket like machine in which she was being fed through fluids. They opened it slowly and one of them called her, “Mother”! Well her eyes opened and then she slowly stood on her feet. All the doctors and scientists sank to the floor, in awe, of what they had managed to achieve! They all met her and introduced themselves. Finally they presented her to the crowd from the balcony of the building. A huge crowd had gathered and they were all dumbstruck but now, also filled with a lot of hope. Mother Teresa was back!

The President and the contingent of ministers joined to explain to her the gravity of the situation and took her around on a helicopter and then seated her for a final briefing. That’s when it happened.

She took a big breath, and said ‘My name is Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu’. She said ‘I am an Albanian and I don’t know what you want me to do and why! I just want to go back to Albania, where my mother and sister are waiting for me.’ She felt no compassion and no burden for the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone. She just quietly walked away into the dark corridors!

Well I knew there was something missing. Yes I have everything that a body needs and yes, with new develpoments in teachnology I can bring back a long dead person’s physical frame. But that is not the greatest miracle man will ever see. The greatest miracle is how God changes man’s heart away from wrong and towards right. The day Teresa thought that she was going to devote her life for God, and then everything had changed for her, her ambitions, her desires and her goals, was probably not incorporated in the scientists’ plans…..

There is more to life than just genetic engineering! A lot more!

Tags: genetic engineering, humanitarian, mother teresa, Nobel Peace Prize

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