Claude Arpi is French-born author, journalist, historian and tibetologist born in 1949 in Angoulême who lives in Auroville, India. He is the author of The Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects (Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 1999), and several articles on Tibet, China, India and Indo-French relations.
Claude Arpi is the director of the Tibetan Pavilion of Auroville, also named Pavilion of Tibetan Culture. The 14th Dalai Lama inaugurated the Pavilion, en présence de Claude Arpi, 20 January 2009.
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