Vijay Narain Seth, or better known as "Vins" graduated from the J. J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbai, in 1968. While still a student, he went across to the Times of Indiafrom J.J.school of art all most next door to meet and watch cartoonist Mario Miranda (whom he considered a mentor) at work. He also started freelancing as a cartoonist for Caravan and Himmat magazines while a student.
He was a political cartoonist for the news magazine Himmat weekly from 1965 to 1981, contributing the pocket cartoon Chalta Hai weekly, and from 1969 adding two other cartoons with national and international comment. Later he started to freelance, doing cartoons on other themes such as science, computers, business, and social issues. He was the first Indian contributing cartoonist for the Indian edition of Reader's Digest in 1976 when Rahul Singh was its chief editor. Subsequently, he was a freelance cartoonist for the business magazines Business India and Business World and the Indian Express group's business publications. He also contributed to publications such as Science Today, a Times of India publication (1971–1984) and the Swiss satirical weekly Nebelspalter.
From 1978–1982, he was requested to contribute cartoons to a fortnightly, Treffpunkt, (editor Heidi Rudolf, published in Zurich, Switzerland 1978–1987). His work appears in The Penguin Book of Indian cartoons (1988). His cartoons have been exhibited in Hungary, Belgium, France, Portugal, Israel, Korea, and Japan (1998). 21 of his satirical cartoons are now part of the online cartoon museum of Aydin Dogan Wakfi in Istanbul, Turkey.
