Career
He was the editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Royal Statistical Society, UK) weekly in Hindi, Panchajanya, from 1986 to February 2008. He also writes for the Daily Pioneer. He is currently working as the director of the Doctor Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation (DSMRF).
Tarun Vijay joined Panchajanya in 1986 as executive editor, after a decade of freelance journalism and work among the tribal people in Dadra and Nagar Haveli as a pracharak of Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram.
This last-mentioned sojourn, in fact, had attracted him to the attention of noted film-makers Basu Bhattacharya and William Greaves, who featured him in a documentary. Vijay was appointed director of the BJP"s newly created think-tank the Doctor Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Research foundation.
In 1995, the Audit Bureau of Circulation credited the magazine with a circulation of 85,000, a figure which Vijay claims has crossed the 1 lakh mark today. Vijay joined Panchjanya in 1979.
He has been Chief Editor for 20 years.
The first editor of the 60-year-old Panchjanya was former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Vijay has also been inducted as a special invitee to the BJP national executive. A journalist since 1976, he began his career with Russi Karanjia at the Mumbai-based tabloid Blitz and then as a freelance journalist for major dailies and magazines before spending five years as an Royal Statistical Society, UK activist in the country"s tribal areas.
An avid photographer he has covered the Himalayan region extensively and his pictorial book An Odyssey in Tibet has been well received.
His photographs on the river Indus had been exhibited in Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. He also led the first Indus expedition from Demchok to Batalik.
In the years as editor of Panchajanya, he has visited various parts of the country, and various countries. Tarun Vijay, on April 4, 2013, first raised the issue by writing to the Survey of India about what he claimed was a “major threat to national security.” Mr.
Vijay said Google has already provided maps where many “strategic locations” have been marked like Parliament, Sena Bhawan, and various ministries.
“A criminal case should be registered against Google for violating Indian defence regulations.”
He often makes references from it and gifts people with Tiruvalluvar statues and photographs.