Claude Arpi's Blog

Recently a ‘political’ novel, Shengshi: Zhongguo 2013 (2013: the Fat Years of China), written by Taiwanese art critic Chan Koon-chung was ...

Today we are celebrating the 63rd anniversary of India's Independence, but also Sri Aurobindo's birthday. It was perhaps a coincide...

Read this report from Green Earth Volunteers (China Environment Brief ). What to say?  It had to happened. The Tibetans believe in Karma...

It is probably the beginning of a process, but no doubt the babus will fight hard to keep their 'secrets'. One should congratulate...

My article on Nepal, Trends in Nepal not good for India appeared today in The New Indian Express. Click on the title to read.

The day this article appeared  on Phayul.com , I came across another article on 'culture'.  Interviewed by Xinhua, the Chinese Mi...

My article The Fat Years is posted on Sify.com . Click here to read.

I find this argument (dam for dam) as one of the most stupid that one can imagine. It has come from the brains of bureaucrats and politician...

More than 700 dead bodies have alreday been found in Drugchu county of Amdo province in Tibet, (Zhouqu County of Gansu province for the Chi...

While on the other side of the McMahon Line, Nyingchi (Tibetan: Nyingtri) is gearing up to receive 1 million visitors, the Indian Defence ...

Munsyari in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand is the last small town before the Nepal-Tibet border. It is here that Malika Virdi, a...

The Pioneer has published today my article on Nalanda and Amartya Sen, Mind over Matter . Click here to read. "The Tibetan Buddhist ...

Whether it is for the Mukti Bahini Operations in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) in 1971, the death of Lal Bhadur Shastri or Shyama Prasad Mukhe...

  Once upon a time, (two/three years ago), the Middle Kingdom spoke of its 'peaceful rise'.  Now we don't hear any more this sl...

My article Repression in Tibet, Human Rights Watch Report Takes The Lid Off appeared in today's edition of The Statesman . Click to ...

One more worrying news. China has more or less the monopoly on the Production of Rare Earths. I am copying here an article of Wikipedia on...

In March, I had suggested to present the Award for the Most Misleading Statement of the Year to Sachin Pilot, the young Minister of Stat...

It is perplexing to discover that an Indian Nobel Prize Laureate does not possess the insight to grasp what has been the hallmark of the In...

A new dystopian novel is said to be spreading ‘like a fire burning in the wilderness’ amongst intellectuals in China. Let me explain. ‘D...