Writer Vijay M. Rajan delineates between base and artful propaganda, calling for the creation of lasting, nuanced, and effectively persuasive art.
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.
Vijay M. Rajan, media arts teacher at his own storyteller studio, explains why he chose not to pursue academia.
Vijay M. Rajan offers a Bill of Responsibilities, an easy-to-use checklist that helps readers discover whether their affiliated institutions are behaving in manners worthy of respect.
In “Understanding modern American politics through Hollywood, pt. 3,” filmmaker Vijay M. Rajan explores how megacorporations use narrative techniques to gaslight the American people into voluntarily capitulating their individual agency. Part 3 of 3.
In "Understanding modern American politics through Hollywood, pt. 2," filmmaker Vijay M. Rajan focuses on how performative risk by musical institutions hampers plausible progress toward equity. Part 2 of 3.
Filmmaker Vijay M. Rajan explores how Hollywood storytelling tropes and techniques have contributed to the dire state of contemporary American politics. Part 1 of 3.
In his exploration of ancient global myths about the birth of song, writer / director Vijay M. Rajan asks, “Which came first — story or music?”; and examines what classical musicians can take from this.
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.