Claude Arpi is a noted Tibetologist and Sinologist, specialising in the India-China-Tibet relationships of the 1940"s and 50"s. His book " The Fate of Tibet " translated into French, is a great record of the fate of the Tibetans in tibet under China and her relationship with India. he is also the creator of ' The Pavilion Of Tibetian Culture ' in Auroville. He currently lives in Auroville, India. Born in Angoulême, France, Claude Arpi decided to come and live in India, since his graduation in dental surgery from Bordeaux University. He lives with his wife and a young daughter in South India. His interest in Tibet dates from the early seventies when he first met the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. He has spent a considerable amount of time researching the history of Tibet and China as well as the sub- continent. He is the author of The Fate of Tibet (Har-Anand Publications), Tibet; le pays sacrifié (Calmann-Lévy, Paris), La politique française de Nehru: 1947-1954 (Pavilions Publications) and several articles on Tibet, China, India and Indo-French relations.

• Feeding the Liberation Army

• Homelands in Pakistan

• True Friendship begins by getting to the bottom of yesterday's problems

• Mr Straw, do you know who created the Kashmir mess?

• The Disintegration of China

• The Last Rites for Tibet

• An interview with Claude Arpi

• A Train to Lhasa

• Bamiyan Buddhas fall prey to Taleban's lust for power - Why this senseless destruction ?

• China and the National River Network

• Envoy in Tibet

• Interview with Claude Arpi : "Kashmir is not negotiable"

• Words to the wise

• Impolitic policies

• Aksai Chin for Arunachal?

• Beijing's Arunachal card

• Is China encircling India?

• The blunder of the Pandit

• The mysterious Tibetan Lake

• Terrorism beyond the spectacle

• Born in Sin: The Panchsheel Agreement - The Sacrifice of Tibet

• Seek the truth from the facts

• Kowtowing to Beijing: a note on the Panchsheel 'celebrations'

• Tibetans & Operation Bluestar

• The Silence Of The Lamb - Reviewed by Dhundup Gyalpo (TibetNet)

• "Freedom of Information" - and - Nehru's or India's Papers?

• Encirclement of India

• Rediscovering the lost track

• The axis that bemuses India

• The history of a bus journey

• The Festive Season

• Diverting the Brahmaputra: Declaration of war ?

• Ladakh revisited

• Why Yahya wasn't squeezed

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