Marguerite (Maggi) Lidchi-Grassi (born 1930 in Paris) is a writer and spiritual teacher.
During World War II, she lived in South Africa, but later returned to Paris, where she encountered a cousin who had survived Auschwitz.[1] An attempt to understand why things went wrong led her, at the age of seventeen, to discover the works of Sri Aurobindo. In 1959, married and once again living in Africa, she decided to leave her husband and family and, after some attempts to dissuade her, went to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry, India, where she still lives.[2] She is the editor of Domani (Tomorrow), a quarterly journal in Italian that has been published by the ashram since 1968.
She prefers to write in English, and has produced many novels, short stories, poems and plays. Her book, The Light That Shone into the Dark Abyss, includes a refutation of the purported relationship between Aurobindo's vision of higher mental/spiritual development for humanity and the Nazi concept of a "Master Race".
Her most recent book, The Great Golden Sacrifice of the Mahabharata, is a retelling of the epic from the viewpoint of Arjuna.[3]