Panchjanya is an India

India

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n weekly newspaper in Hindi

Hindi

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, published by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or National Patriotic Organization), also known the Sangh, is a right-wing Hindu nationalist, paramilitary, volunteer, and allegedly militant organization for Hindu males in India...

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Panchjanya was launched under the editorship of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India three times – first for a brief term of 13 days in 1996, and then for two terms from 1998 to 2004. After his first brief period as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from...

 on the auspicious Makara Sankranti day, 14th January, 1948. The inaugural cover page copied a picture of Lord Krishna and the weekly boldly declared that its objective was to pursue idealism based on patriotism and to uphold the cultural heritage of India.

Political thinkers and literary figures such as Dr. Sampurnanand

Sampurnanand

Dr Sampurnanand was a teacher and politician in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was elected to the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly and served as chief minister of the state from 1954 to 1960.If we consider single tenure in the office of the U.P. C.M. then Dr...

, Purushottam Das Tandon

Purushottam Das Tandon

Purushottam Das Tandon पुरुषोत्तम दास टंडन , was a freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh in India, of Punjabi Khatri descent. He is widely remembered for his efforts in achieving the Official Language of India status for Hindi. He was customarily given the title Rajarshi...

, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia

Ram Manohar Lohia

Rammanohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter and a socialist political leader.-Early life:Lohia was born in a village Akbarpur in Ambedkar Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, in India to Hira Lal, a nationalist and Chanda,a teacher. He was born to Marwari Maheshwari family. His mother died when he...

, Jai Prakash Narayan, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi

Hazari Prasad Dwivedi

Acharya' Hazari Prasad Dwivedi was a Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar...

, Mahadevi Verma, Amritlal Nagar

Amritlal Nagar

Amritlal Nagar born 17 August 1916 in Agra Uttar Pradesh, has been one of the prominent Hindi writers of modern times.He started off as an author and journalist, but moved on to be an active writer in Indian Film Industry for next 7 years. He worked as a drama producer in All India Radio at...

, Kishori Das Bajpai and many other were among the galaxy of writers for Panchjanya.

Panchjanya has made efforts to generate a debate on national issues by publishing long interviews of political leaders representing different viewpoints such as Morarji Desai

Morarji Desai

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977–79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress...

, Chowdhary Charan Singh, Chandra Shekhar Singh, Mulayam Singh, Sharad Yadav

Sharad Yadav

Sharad Yadav, a politician from the Janata Dal party, is currently a Member of the Parliament of India representing the Madhepura constituency of Bihar in the Lok Sabha...

, A. B. Bardhan, Late M.A.Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

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, D.Raja, Vasant Sathe

Vasant Sathe

Vasant Purushottam Sathe was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress party. He was a lawyer by training and became a parliamentarian in 1972 and a cabinet minister during the 1980s. He was a socialist and came to prominence in the congress after Indira Gandhi split the party for a...

, V.N.Gadgil, K. Karunakaran, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Maulana wahiduddin khan

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 etc. Experienced administrators such as Jagmohan and J.N.Dikshit, prominent journalists Arun Shourie

Arun Shourie

Arun Shourie is an Indian journalist, author, intellectual and politician. He has been an economist with the World Bank , a consultant to the Planning Commission, India, editor of the Indian Express and Times of India and a minister in the government of India . He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay...

 and T. V. R. Shenoy

T. V. R. Shenoy

T. V. R Shenoy is a journalist and columnist of India .Shenoy had served as the Editor of the weekly news magazine The Week and Sunday Mail and held various posts in Indian Express and Malayala Manorama....

 and reputed names in literature and art like Narendra Kohli

Narendra Kohli

Narendra Kohli ' is a Hindi-language author. He is credited with reinventing the ancient form of epic writing in modern prose. He is also regarded as a trend-setter in the sense that he pioneered the creation of literary works based on the "Puranas"...

, Yamini Krishnamurthy

Yamini Krishnamurthy

Mungara Yamini Krishnamurthy is an eminent Indian dancer of Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi styles of dancing.-Early life: Yamini Krishnamurthy was born in Madanapalli, Andhra Pradesh...

 and Sharda Ghate are regular contributors in Panchjanya.

After Vajpayjee moved on to politics, he was succeeded by eminent editors like Rajiv Lochan Agnihotri, Gyanendra Saxena, Girish Chandra Mishra, Mahendra Kulashrestha, Tilak Singh Parmar, Yadav Rao, Vachnesh Tripathi, K. R. Malkani, Devendra Swaroop, Dinanath Mishra, Bhanu Pratap Shukla, Ram Shankar Agnihotri and Prabal Maitra. It is now edited by Tarun Vijay

Tarun Vijay

Tarun Vijay is an Indian author, social worker, famous freelance journalist, and parliamentarian. He was the editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh weekly in Hindi, Panchajanya, from 1986 to February 2008, and is a columnist of the newspaper The Times of India. He also writes for the Daily...

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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

Lakh

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mark today.In Feb, 2008 Tarun Vijay gave his resignation from the post of Editor and now MR. Baldev sharma is the editor of Panchjanya.