Background
Vijaygupta Maurya was born as Vijayshankar Morarji Vasu (Gujarati: વિજયશંકર મુરારજી વાસુ) in Porbandar, Gujarat in 1909.
Vijaygupta Maurya was born as Vijayshankar Morarji Vasu (Gujarati: વિજયશંકર મુરારજી વાસુ) in Porbandar, Gujarat in 1909.
He completed his high school education at Bhavsingh High School in Porbandar, India. He studied law in Mumbai, India and returned to Porbandar in 1933 to start his law practice.
He wrote thousands of articles popularising science as well as several books Four years later he took a position as judge in a British court. However, due to his passion for bird watching he wrote regular articles for Prakruti (Gujarati: પ્રકૃત્તિ) magazine on birds In 1944, the freedom fighter in British India named Doctor Vasant Avsare (Gujarati: ડૉ વસંત અવસરે) came to Porbandar and asked Vijaygupta Maurya to fight for his case.
However, as Vijaygupta Maurya was already at the position of judge, he could not do southern
This prompted Vijaygupta Maurya to resign from his position and took Doctor Avsare"s case as a regular lawyer This ended Vijaygupta Maurya"s career as judge and he decided to stay in Mumbai.
He found a job as a typist for the salary of Rs. 0.75 per month at Gordhandas ni Pedhi (Gujarati: ગોરધનદાસ શેઠની પેઢી).
Career as Journalist and Writer In between financial struggles he kept writing for Prakruti magazine.
After a few years, he got an opportunity to write for the Gujarati newspaper Janmabhumi. He started writing articles about birds and other animals for the last page of Janambhumi Pravasi with limited space and eventually grew to become editor/writer of entire page and wrote on varied subjects from the universe, science, marine life, plant life and so on. Later years In 1973, he left Janmabhumi Pravasi and became a freelance journalist writing for various magazines.
He also wrote several books during that time that included the theme of serving interesting factual information rolled up in stories as well as other books based on true stories.
His career as a writer spanned over 46 years, however it didn"t help him much financially. During later years he encountered several physical problems including poor vision, continuous back pain and Parkinson"s disease.
After a long illness he died in July 1992. Nagendra Vijay started writing at the age of 14 and pioneered the first Gujarati science magazine Scope and later Safari magazine.