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In 2001 Danino convened the International Forum for India's Heritage, having over 160 eminent founder members, with the mission of promoting the essential values of India's heritage in every field of life.<ref name="IFIH's Founder Members"/> |
In 2001 Danino convened the International Forum for India's Heritage, having over 160 eminent founder members, with the mission of promoting the essential values of India's heritage in every field of life.<ref name="IFIH's Founder Members"/> |
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He has lectured widely on various historically important aspects of Indian civilization with special attention on Indus-Sarasvati Civilization, especially in various prestigious cultural and educational institutions, including several IITs.<ref |
He has lectured widely on various historically important aspects of Indian civilization with special attention on Indus-Sarasvati Civilization, especially in various prestigious cultural and educational institutions, including several IITs.<ref>http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/gj/new/Events/daninoindhistory.php</ref> |
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Michel Danino | |
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| Born | June 4, 1956 Honfleur, France |
| Occupation | Writer, researcher |
Michel Danino (born June 4, 1956) is an Indian author, originally from France.[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) and India the Mother (a selection from the Mother's works about India). 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]
Birth and early life
Michel Danino was born in 1956 at Honfleur (France) into a 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]
In The Invasion that Never Was (2000), he criticized the "Aryan invasion theory" and its proponents, instead opting for the notion of "Indigenous Aryans". Danino asserts that Aryans are indigenous to India. Danino is a guest professor at IIT Gandhinagar, where he is assisting the setting up of an Archaeological Sciences Centre.[4]
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 the Tamil Nadu Forest Department in 1998 to invite a committee of local citizens to assist in protecting Longwood Shola near Kotagiri. 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.".[5]
In 2001 Danino convened the International Forum for India's Heritage, having over 160 eminent founder members, with the mission of promoting the essential values of India's heritage in every field of life.[2]
He has lectured widely on various historically important aspects of Indian civilization with special attention on Indus-Sarasvati Civilization, especially in various prestigious cultural and educational institutions, including several IITs.[6]
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 (Penguin Books, 2010). ISBN 978-0-14-306864-8.
- Indian Culture and India's Future (DK Printworld, 2011)
See also
References
- ^ a b Pande Daniel, Vaihayasi. "'The Sarasvati was more sacred than Ganga'". Rediff.com. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
Technically, I am not a 'foreigner': I adopted Indian citizenship some years ago.
- ^ a b IFIH's Founder Members
- ^ http://micheldanino.voiceofdharma.com/ [dead link]
- ^ http://www.iitgn.ac.in/faculty/humanities/michel.htm
- ^ "Rousing the invisible" by Sapna Gopal, Planet Earth, vol. 2, issue 8, September 2010 , pp. 39–41.
- ^ http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/gj/new/Events/daninoindhistory.php
Interview by Dipin Damodharanor Education Insider http://www.educationinsider.net/detail_news.php?id=343
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