About Claude Arpi
Born 1949. Claude Arpi is a French and Indian journalist, writer and historian.
Claude Arpi is French-born author, journalist, and tibetologist born in 1949 in Angoulême 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, China, India and Indo-French relations.
Claude Arpi is the director of the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture at Auroville. The 14th Dalai Lama inaugurated the Pavilion, with Claude Arpi in attendance, on 20 January 2009.
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Who is Claude Arpi?
French writer, historian and Tibetologist
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Claude Arpi was born in 1949 in Angoulême.
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Claude Arpi is a journalist, writer and historian.
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Claude Arpi is French and Indian.
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