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Michel Danino
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ARYAN INVASION THEORY
Born in 1956 at Honfleur (France) into a Jewish family recently emigrated from Morocco, from the age
of fifteen Michel Danino was drawn to India, some of her great yogis, and soon to Sri Aurobindo and
Mother and their view of evolution which gives a new meaning to our existence on this earth. In 1977,
dissatisfied after four years of higher scientific studies, he left France for India, where he has since
been living.
Michel Danino participated in the English translation and publication of Mother’s Agenda (13 volumes,
Mother’s record of her yoga in the depths of the body consciousness) and several books by Satprem
(Mother’s confidant and recipient of Mother’s Agenda). Michel Danino also edited, among other titles,
India’s Rebirth (a selection from Sri Aurobindo’s works about India, available online ; first published in
1993, now in its 3rd edition, translated into nine Indian languages) and India the Mother (a selection
from Mother’s words, 1998).
Studying India’s culture and ancient history in the light of both Sri Aurobindo’s pioneering work and
archaeological research, in 1996 Michel Danino authored The Invasion That Never Was, a brief study
of the Aryan invasion theory. Intended primarily for the educated non-specialist Indian public, the book
has also been well received in scholarly circles. A second, extensively revised and enlarged edition was
brought out in 2000; a third is scheduled for late 2003.
Over the last few years, Michel Danino has given lectures at various official, academic and cultural
forums on issues confronting Indian culture and civilization in today’s world ; some of them have been
published under the titles Sri Aurobindo and Indian Civilization (1999), The Indian Mind Then and Now
(2000), Is Indian Culture Obsolete ? (2000), and Kali Yuga or the Age of Confusion (2001). Delving into
the roots of Indian civilization, Michel Danino has argued that its essential values remain indispensable
in today’s India — and in fact for all humanity in this critical phase of global deculturization and
dehumanization. Many of those lectures and a few new ones are available on this homepage.
Michel Danino’s other fields of activity include Nature conservation; his action for the preservation of
an important pocket of native tropical rainforest in the Nilgiris led to the creation of Tamil Nadu’s first
“watchdog” committee in which concerned citizens actively collaborated with both the Forest Department
and local villagers in conservation work, also involving local teachers and hundreds of students.
In 2001, Michel Danino convened the International Forum for India’s Heritage (IFIH) with over 160
eminent founder members, whose mission is to promote the essential values of India’s heritage in every
field of life.
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Rajiv Malhotra
Rajiv Malhotra is the founder and president of Infinity Foundation. An Indian-American entrepreneur,
philanthropist and community leader, he has devoted himself, for the last ten years, to clarifying the
many misperceptions about Indic traditions in America and amongst Indians.