Tarun Vijay

Tarun Vijay
Born 1961 (age 53–54)
Occupation Journalism, author, social worker

Tarun Vijay (born in 1961) is a renowned Indian author, thinker, social worker, famous freelance journalist, and parliamentarian. He was the editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) 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 Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation (DSMRF).[1]

He is an elected member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament and president of Parliamentary Group on India China Friendship. He is also member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defense Ministry and Parliamentary Consultative Committee on External Affairs. He is also a member of Board of Governors, Parliamentary Network on World Bank and IMF.

Career

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.

Tarun Vijay was appointed director of the BJP's newly created think-tank the Dr 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. He has been asked by the RSS top brass to form the think-tank on the ideological lines of nationalism "uncompromising and unapologetic".

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 RSS activist in the country's tribal areas. He was the youngest member of the then home minister's Hindi Language advisory committee during Indira Gandhi's government before joining Panchjanya.

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.[2]

He has authored two books. Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee released a book of Shri Tarun Vijay titled An Odyssey in Tibet: Pilgrimage of Kailash Mansarovar[3] in New Delhi

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 is the first North Indian Parliamentarian who recognized the greatness of Tamil which is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world. He said "Tirukural" is a classic Tamil literature authored by Thiruvalluvar. It is a literary work about which not only Tamils...but the Indian community as a whole can feel proud of".

Books


Awards

the samadhi place of Kavi Chakravarty Kamban, the immortal author of Tamil Ramayana. This is the first time that the highly prestigious 'Aruntamizh Aarvalar Award' is given to any non-tamil person by Kamban Academy.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/BJP-MP-Tarun-Vijay-becomes-first-north-Indian-to-get-Kamban-Acedemy-award/articleshow/46782102.cms?

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