About – PSJ

Extraordinary People, Exceptional Coaching

Chief Mentor

Mr R. Rangaraj Pandey, with more than 22 years of experience in media, is the founder and CEO of Chanakyaa and the Chief Mentor of Pandey School of Journalism.

Mr Pandey was born in Srivilliputtur and is one of the most recognised news personalities in Tamil Nadu. Since his childhood years, he has dreamt and strived to be nothing but a journalist. He has published handwritten weekly magazines while still in secondary school. He did his MA Tamil from Madurai Kamaraj University.

His official career in print media started as a Reporter at Dinamalar in 1999. He used to write articles & for Doubt Dhanabal, a popular satirical column in Dinamalar even today.

After almost 14 years of his tenure at Dinamalar, he made a shift to visual media at Thanthi TV in 2012.

He was the Editor-in-Chief at Thanthi TV, hosted two very famous shows, ‘Ayudha Ezhuthu’ – where his debates became a trendsetter in Tamil Nadu; and ‘Kelvikku Enna Badhil’ – where he did one-on-one interviews with well-known personalities including our PM Narendra Modi and earned the title as the “People’s Interviewer.”

In 2019, Mr Pandey ventured into social media and founded “Chanakyaa”, the YouTube channel with more than 1 million subscribers.

Pandey School of Journalism (PSJ) has been his brainchild that commenced in 2020. PSJ is inclined to create ethical journalists in our society and is an effort to encourage our next generation to pave the way.

Mr Pandey has also explored the film industry and done some notable roles in Nerkonda Paarvai (2019) – as Advocate Sathyamoorthy and in Ka Pae Ranasingam (2020) – as Tamizhkumaran, Ramanathapuram District Collector.

Overall, Mr Pandey is a wealth of knowledge, and his desire to learn has carved him into an intellect. He is known for his brilliant questioning tactics that have made him a voice of the people. Now, he is venturing to have our voices heard too!

Books Published

1.puthiya Kalvi kolkai 2020 varama saabama?

2.karuppu, sivappu, kaavi

First Multi Social Media Channel

First multi social media channel available in 8 platforms. YouTube, FB, Twitter, Website, Sharechat, Koo, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Only Indian News Channel without the back up of, so called main stream media.
Done simultaneous Live in 6 platforms. First of its kind.
At a time done simultaneous 4 Live from various places in 6 platforms. First of its kind.
On an average, more than 95.2 Lakh views per month. Means more than 3.2 Lakh view every day.
Purest form of organic growth. Not even a single time have we featured Subscribe, Like, Follow or Press Bell button in any of our videos from Day one.
Every day 1350 subscribers add on.
21% of the viewers are Female. Which NO other NEWS channel owns.
371 videos crossed One Lakh views in 14 months in YouTube alone. Out of these 100 videos crossed 2.5 Lakh views Means, every month 18 videos crossing 1 Lakh views. That is, every 2 days one video is crossing 1 Lakh view.
59% of the viewers are in the age group of 18 to 45. Which means strong youth and deciding group is the base of Chanakyaa.
We run Guru exclusive channel for spiritual segment.
We run முத்திரை. Exclusive channel for Cinema, TV and Social Media.
The Channel viewers are Male, Youth, Buyers, Decision makers, Cream of the society.