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Vijay Rajan

Materials/Personal Reflection

Decolonizing myself, The Jungle Book, and Rudy, too

Writer/director Vijay M. Rajan details how working on an adaptation of The Jungle Book helped him reconcile code-switching as the material technique for the decolonization of his psychology.

November 16, 2022
Learning/Personal Reflection

How academia failed my father

Vijay M. Rajan, media arts teacher at his own storyteller studio, explains why he chose not to pursue academia.

August 16, 2022
Ethics/Academic-ish

Why your legacy doesn’t matter, according to the Buddha

Writer and filmmaker Vijay M. Rajan grapples with ideas of “soul” in Eastern and Western moral philosophy to access the flow necessary for ideal artistic expression.

September 22, 2021

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    Winter 2024: Media mélange
  • Ian Nutting

    “It already has”: Speed Racer and impossible hope
  • Noël Wan

    ChatGPT & me
  • Mona Sangesland

    Mapping the Nueva Canción Chilena
  • Andrew Bethke

    Vulgar academia: Why knowledge production needs a class war
  • Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena

    Passing the mic from white middle-aged spiritual liberation to post-college travel utopia
  • Brandon Smith

    Living burnout in retrospect
  • Vijay Rajan

    Decolonizing myself, The Jungle Book, and Rudy, too

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