Before that he was the Editor (views) in Navbharat Times of the Times Group. At present, he is the Chairman of Bhartiya Bhasha Sammelan.Vaidik hails from an Arya Samaj family and was initially influenced by socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia and considers Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav as a close friend.
Vaidik, indeed is a man of many parts. His friends and associates in journalism do accuse him of being prone to boasting about his achievements.
His doctoral thesis from Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University was on Afghanistan, and since then has kept close track of developments in that country.
Vaidik started his career as a lecturer at Delhi's Motilal Nehru College in the early 1970s, but soon exhibited his uncanny knack of finding access to the influential and powerful.
