Maggi Lidchi-Grassi

Maggi Lidchi-Grassi (* 1930 in Paris ) is a writer and homeopath who lives in India.

Life and works

Her parents were Eliane and Henri Lidchi. They left Europe in 1937 because of the impending danger from Nazi Germany. Maggi Lidchi-Grassi spent the war years in South Africa and then returned to Paris. After coming into contact with French translations of Aurobindo's works , she joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry in 1959 and has lived there ever since. She is the editor of “Domani”, a quarterly magazine in Italian; it has been published by the ashram since 1968.

Your preferred written language is English. In her latest book, “The Great Golden Sacrifice of the Mahabharata ” (Random House India, 2011) , she interprets Vyasa's epic from Arjuna's point of view . Her outstanding works 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 in the book "The Light That Shined into the Abyss" tells something about Sri Aurobindo's spiritual work against National Socialism and analyzes the occult satanic forces to which Hitler and the leading representatives of his movement opened up had.

Works in German

• The Great Lord and the Heavenly Woman - the incredible story of a GI . E-book, ISBN 978-3-8442-5682-6
• The light that shone into the abyss . ISBN 8-170-58517-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Note by the author in the foreword to The light that shone into the abyss
2. ↑ MAGGI LIDCHI GRASSI - THE PURPOSE ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (August 10, 2010, accessed September 28, 2012) 

Web links

• Literature by and about Maggi Lidchi-Grassi in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
• Interview 23: Maggi Lidchi (January 1981, English) in: Malcolm Tillis: New Lives . 2007. ISBN 9781847532756