Chair: Brig (retd) Rumel Dahiya, DDG, IDSA

Speaker: Mr. Claude Arpi

Veneu: Room No. 005

About the Author

Born in 1949 in Angoulême, France, Claude Arpi studied dental surgery in Bordeaux University. After graduating as a Dental Surgeon in June 1974, he decided to come to India.

He is the author of The Fate of Tibet (Har-Anand Publications, 1999); Tibet, le pays sacrifié (Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 2000); And Dark Shall be the Night: The Karma of Tibet (Editions Auroville Press International, 2001); La politique française de Nehru : 1947-1954 (Pavilions Series, Auroville 2002); Cachemire, le paradis perdu (Editions Philippe Picquier, France, 2004);  Born in Sin: the Panchsheel Agreement (Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2004); India and her Neighbourhood: A French Observers’ Views (Har Anand, Delhi, 2005); Tibet: The Lost Frontier (Lancers Publishers); The Negotiations that never were: Dharamsala and Beijing (Lancer Publishers) and 1962: The McMahon Line Saga(Lancer Publishers).

More recently, he published Glimpses of Tibetan History (The Tibet Museum, Dharamsala, 2013).

He regularly writes on Tibet, China, India and Indo-French relations for Rediff.com, Sify.com, The Pioneer, The Statesman, DNA and other Indian publications.

He is member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Defence Review.