https://www.kaldendhatsenpa.caRSS Feed for Kalden DhatsenpaenFri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://lausancollective.com/2026/the-forgotten-path-of-tibetan-communism/Editors’ note: This essay by Tibetan-Canadian journalist and poet Kalden Dhatsenpa reviews the memoirs of one of the key founders and leaders of the Tibetan Communist Party, Phuntsok Wangyal. Wangyal’s memoirs are edited and translated into English as A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye (University of California Press, 2004).Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://lausancollective.com/2026/the-forgotten-path-of-tibetan-communism/https://carteblanchemagazine.com/issue-46/dhatsenpa-providence-devoidAn astrology website once told me that my moon sign, Sagittarius, indicated that I likely moved a significant amount as a child. Another suggested that whenever I was feeling down or confused, that I should travel to a different neighbourhood as an alternative form of therapy. “Providence, Devoid” is a personal travelogue of sorts and by extension, due to my astrological predilection, a therapeutic reflection on the void left by my father’s passing.Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://carteblanchemagazine.com/issue-46/dhatsenpa-providence-devoidhttps://yeshe.org/four-poems/Kalden Rangdröl Dhatsenpa’s poem ‘Bandit Enlightenment, or the Real Shangri-la’ juxtaposes religious philosophy and realism without suggesting the negation of either of the two. Kalden Rangdröl Dhatsenpa also enriches the English language by seamlessly bringing to it Tibetan exclamatory words such as ‘e-ma-ho’, ‘Ki’, and ‘kikisoso lha gyalo’ in his poetry.Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://yeshe.org/four-poems/https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-day-the-bubble-burst-akira-and-the-japans-economic-miracleAkira was made at the tail-end of a dying studio system, and at the apogee of Japan’s asset bubble, which began its slow burst in 1989. The scale of Akira’s story makes it even more remarkable that such a film was able to see the light of day given the floundering of Japan’s economy at the close of the decade.Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-day-the-bubble-burst-akira-and-the-japans-economic-miraclehttps://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/atlantis-ukraineUkraine’s military-entertainment complex has found success in Atlantis; it has the artistic subtlety that other Ukranian war films lacked, but it didn’t have to sacrifice any of the military connections, or right-wing political aspirations.Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/atlantis-ukrainehttps://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/triangle-of-sadness-is-a-flawed-rebuke-of-the-billionaire-classÖstlund is playing with all the right and relevant pieces and themes. The film is brimming with great moments, but it also lacks sharpness in its commentary. Triangle of Sadness is a caricature of the wealthy—and a decent one at that—but caricatures seldom offer much more than entertainment.Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/triangle-of-sadness-is-a-flawed-rebuke-of-the-billionaire-classhttps://breachmedia.ca/canada-birthed-a-mining-industry-in-chinese-occupied-tibet/The steady flow of minerals from Tibet’s sacred mountains to global markets is haunted by the ghost of Canadian mining companies. In the Chinese-occupied nation, Canadian companies were among the first to gain access to the copper, gold, lead and zinc under its peaks—making Canada, for a time, a major foreign investor in Tibet.Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://breachmedia.ca/canada-birthed-a-mining-industry-in-chinese-occupied-tibet/https://commo.xyzI drive to a car wash near me in little italy. I think the owners are Iranian. None of the garage doors are motorized. They were pulling them open and closed with bare hands on steel chains in the middle of winter.Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://commo.xyzhttps://breachmedia.ca/infiltrating-amazon-what-i-learned-going-undercover-at-the-corporate-giant/Photography for The Breach. Canon 6D at the Amazon facility in Lasalle.Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://breachmedia.ca/infiltrating-amazon-what-i-learned-going-undercover-at-the-corporate-giant/