Through the eyes of a holocaust survivor- Maggi Lidchi Grassi
Socio-ethical Mahabharata relevance in modern society Growing up in the 1930s and surviving to remember the Holocaust all one's life must have been a pure agony. “The horror of that time and place was not an abstraction for me: a cousin with whom I used to play as a child had come out of Auschwitz with her identity number tattooed on her arm and a burden of dreams from which she would wake up screaming, night after night,” writes Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, who was in Paris during the post-war years. Fig- 2.1 War of Kurukshetra depicting Bhisma and Nazi Germans She chanced upon a French translation of Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita . She realised that a rationalistic answer to what had happened in the global war was neither possible nor desirable. Caught in a moral dilemma , Arjuna found release “in something from another dimension, a vision in which the terrifying ambiguities of morality are somehow resolved.” Thus was born the author's anabasis carrying ...