Maggi Lidchi-Grassi

Maggi Lidchi - Grassi ( born 1930 in Paris ) is a writer and homeopath.

Maggi Lidchi - Grassi spent the war years in South Africa and then returned to Paris. After she had come with French translations of the works of Aurobindo in touch, she joined in 1959 the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry in and now lives there. She is the editor of " Domani ", a quarterly magazine in Italian; It is published by the Ashram since 1968.

Her outstanding works mainly include the novels " Earthman ," " The First Woman ", " The great Lord and the Heavenly Woman " as well as several collections of poems, fables, short stories and plays. She published her experiences during the Nazi regime and confronted the objectives Aurobindo of the mental- spiritual higher development of man with the Nazi idea of a " master race " ( " The light that shone into the abyss ," Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 1994 ).

In her latest book, " The Great Golden victims of the Mahabharata " ( Random House India, 2011) interprets Vyasa epic from the point of view of Arjuna.