Claude Arpi is French-born author, journalist, and tibetologist born in 1949 in

Angoulême Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; ) is a small city in the southwestern French Departments of France, department of Charente, of which it is the Prefectures of France, prefecture. Located on a plateau overlooking a meander of ...

who lives in Auroville, India. He is the author of several books including ''The Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects'', and several articles on

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

, China, India and Indo-French relations. Claude Arpi is the director of the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture at Auroville. The

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (born 6 July 1935; full spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, shortened as Tenzin Gyatso; ) is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served a ...

inaugurated the Pavilion, with Claude Arpi in attendance, on 20 January 2009.

Bibliography

India–Tibet Relations (1947–1962) series: *''Tibet: When the Gods Spoke. India Tibet Relations (1947–1962), Part 3'', Vij Books, 2019. *''Will Tibet Ever Find Her Soul Again? India Tibet Relations (1947–1962), Part 2'', Vij Books, 2018. *''Tibet: The Last Months of a Free Nation. India Tibet Relations (1947–1962), Part 1'', Vij Books, 2017. Other: *''1962 and the McMahon Line Saga'', Lancer Publishers, 2013. *''India and her neighbourhood: a French observer's views'', Har-Anand Publications, 2005. *''Born in Sin : The Panchsheel Agreement, The Sacrifice of Tibet'', Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2004. *''Cachemire, le paradis perdu'', Éditions Philippe Picquier, 2004 . *''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. *''La politique française de Nehru, La fin des comptoirs français en Inde (1947–1954)'', Éditions Auroville Press, Auroville, 2002 *''Tibet, le pays sacrifié'', préfacé par le Dalaï Lama, Calmann-Lévy, 2000. . *''The Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects,'' Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 1999.

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