Claude Arpi is French-born author, journalist, and tibetologist[1][2] born in 1949 in Angoulême[3] who lives in Auroville, India. He is the author of several books including The Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects,[4] and several articles on Tibet, China, India and Indo-French relations.
Claude Arpi is the director of the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture at Auroville.[5] The 14th Dalai Lama inaugurated the Pavilion, with Claude Arpi in attendance, on 20 January 2009.[6]
Bibliography
India–Tibet Relations (1947–1962) series:
Tibet: When the Gods Spoke. India Tibet Relations (1947–1962), Part 3, Vij Books, 2019. ISBN9388161564
Will Tibet Ever Find Her Soul Again? India Tibet Relations (1947–1962), Part 2, Vij Books, 2018. ISBN8193759184
Tibet: The Last Months of a Free Nation. India Tibet Relations (1947–1962), Part 1, Vij Books, 2017. ISBN9386457210
Other:
1962 and the McMahon Line Saga, Lancer Publishers, 2013. ISBN9781935501572
India and her neighbourhood: a French observer's views, Har-Anand Publications, 2005. ISBN978-81-241-1097-3
Born in Sin : The Panchsheel Agreement, The Sacrifice of Tibet, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2004. ISBN9788170999744
Cachemire, le paradis perdu, Éditions Philippe Picquier, 2004 (in French). ISBN2-87730-742-5
Il y a 50 ans : Pondichéry, Éditions Auroville Press, Auroville, 2004
Long and dark shall be the night : the Karma of Tibet, Éditions Auroville Press, Auroville, 2002. ISBN8187373237
La politique française de Nehru, La fin des comptoirs français en Inde (1947–1954), Éditions Auroville Press, Auroville, 2002[7]
Tibet, le pays sacrifié, préfacé par le Dalaï Lama, Calmann-Lévy, 2000. ISBN2-7021-3132-8.
The Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects, Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 1999. ISBN9788124106389
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^India. "Claude Arpi". Blogger.com. Retrieved 12 May 2011.