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Alain Daniélou, Zagarolo, Rome,1985, Photo J E. Cloarec.

Published in 11 languages – French, English, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Romanian, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Tamil and Japanese – Alain Daniélou’s work is currently available in 15 countries. His multi-faceted work appears to attract the interest of an increasing number of readers. One of the reasons for such interest is certainly his Hindu-Shaivite view of the world, to which he bore witness and whose frontiersman he became, dealing with subjects that have become immensely urgent for mankind’s survival on this Earth. At the same time, for centuries India has acted as a laboratory in the cohabitation of peoples of different languages, cultures, origins and religions - a fact that is of great interest to our shattering western society – and is a source of information at the present time of globalisation and major population migrations.
During this year – 2007 – and extending into 2008, we shall be commemorating the centenary of the birth of this author, who defies all classification and who lived through the past century in such a fantastic fashion. This 13th newsletter provides information about the various events and publications being prepared in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany and India.
In particular, I wish to highlight the culmination of a project in the musical field, started by Alain Daniélou in 1936 with Maurice Martenot. Indeed, the microtonal instrument known as the Semantic Danielou is of interest to several composers, and compositions are currently being prepared for it. The first has already been completed : it is called “Ahata-Anahata”, a work by Igor Wakhévitch, extracts of which can be found on our site, which has been totally restructured.