Michel Danino
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| Born | June 4, 1956 Honfleur, France |
| Occupation | Writer/Researcher |
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Michel Danino (b. June 4, 1956 at Honfleur), is a French‐born Indian author who has been living in Tamil Nadu, India since 1977.[1]
He participated in the translation and publication of the works of Sri Aurobindo and of The Mother. Danino also edited India's Rebirth (a selection from Sri Aurobindo's works about India, first published in 1993, translated into nine Indian languages) and India the Mother. He engaged himself also for the preservation of tropical rainforest in the Nilgiri Hills. In 2001, he convened the International Forum for India's Heritage (IFIH) with the mission of promoting the essential values of India's heritage in every field of life.[2]
In The Invasion that Never Was (2000), he has criticized the "Aryan invasion theory" and its proponents, instead opting for the notion of "Indigenous Aryans". Danino asserts that Aryans are indigenous to India.
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[edit] Birth and Early life
Michael Danino was born in 1956 at Honfleur (France) into a Jewish family, which had emigrated from Morocco. He was attracted to India from an early age. Yogis of India, Sri Aurobindo and The Mother particularly attracted him. In 1977, dissatisfied after four years of higher scientific studies, he left France for India, where he has since been living.[3]
[edit] Life in India
He spent a few years in Auroville, Tamil Nadu. Then lived in Nilgiri mountains for two decades. In 2003 he settled near Coimbatore and adopted the Indian citizenship .[1].
While in Nilgiris he fought against the daily destruction of Shola or evergreen montane rainforests of the Western Ghats and turned into a nature conservationist. His work prompted Tamil Nadu Forest Department in 1998 to invite a committee of local citizens to assist in protecting Shola forest. He said about the incident, "It shows that public's participation is the key and that the government alone, even when it has goodwill, is simply not geared to face today's challenges, but it is important that people get involved." [4].
In 2001 Danino convened the International Forum for India's Heritage, having over 160 eminent founder members, with the mission of prommoting the essential values of India's heritage in every filed of life.[5]
[edit] Works
- Sri Aurobindo and Indian Civilization (1999)
- The Invasion that Never Was (2000)
- The Indian Mind Then and Now (2000)
- Is Indian Culture Obsolete? (2000)
- Kali Yuga or the Age of Confusion (2001)
- L'Inde et l'invasion de nulle part - Le dernier repaire du mythe aryen (2006) Les Belles Lettres. ISBN 2-251-72010-3
- The Lost River - On the trail of the Sarasvati (2010). ISBN 9780143068648.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Michel Danino homepage
- HinduWisdom Quotes from Michel Danino
- Effects of Colonization on Indian Thought, Michel Danino (1999)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Pande Daniel, Vaihayasi. "'The Sarasvati was more sacred than Ganga'". Rediff.com. http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/may/22/interview-with-michel-danino.htm. Retrieved 8 August 2011. "Technically, I am not a 'foreigner': I adopted Indian citizenship some years ago."
- ^ IFIH's Founder Members
- ^ http://micheldanino.voiceofdharma.com/
- ^ “Rousing the invisible” by Sapna Gopal, Planet Earth, vol. 2, issue 8, September 2010 , pp. 39–41.
- ^ IFIH's Founder Members
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