Swarajya (magazine)

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Swarajya
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May 2018 issue
Editorial Directors
Editorial Advisory Board
Categories News magazine
FrequencyMonthly (2015–present)
Weekly (1956–1980)
PublisherV. Murali
Amarnath Govindarajan
FounderKhasa Subba Rao
Founded1956
First issue14 July 1956 (1956-07-14)
CompanyBharathan Publications Private Limited (1956–2014)
Kovai Media Private Limited (2014–present)
Country India
Based in Coimbatore/Bengaluru (2014–present)
Chennai (1956–1980)
Language English
Website swarajyamag.com/about-us
OCLC 3999897

Swarajya is an Indian right-wing [13] monthly print magazine and news portal. The publication reports favourably on the Bharatiya Janata Party and has published misinformation on many occasions. [2] [14] [15] [16] [17]

Contents

R. Jagannathan is the current editorial director. Originally established in 1956 as a weekly under the patronage of C. Rajagopalachari, it shut down in 1980 but was relaunched in September 2014, as a daily news website; a monthly print magazine was launched in January 2015. [18]

History

Swarajya was launched as a weekly magazine in 1956 by journalist Khasa Subba Rao, under the patronage of C. Rajagopalachari, a prominent independence activist and one of the founders of the Swatantra Party. [19] [20]

The magazine strongly advocated individual freedom and freedom of enterprise as against Nehru's socialist policies. [21] Minoo Masani, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, and R. K. Laxman have contributed to the magazine. [22] [23] After Rajagopalachari's death in 1972, the magazine slowly began to decline and eventually closed in 1980. [24]

Relaunch in 2014

The magazine was relaunched as an online daily in September 2014, with Sandipan Deb as the Editorial Director; the first edition of the print magazine was launched in January 2015. [24] Coimbatore-based Kovai Media Private Limited purchased the rights to the magazine from Chennai-based Bharathan Publishers, along with 40,000 pages from the earlier editions of the magazine. [24] The magazine describes itself as "a big tent for liberal right of centre discourse". [1]

In October 2016, it acquired OpIndia; in 2018, it became an independent entity. [25] In 2018, Swarajya launched its Hindi edition. [26]

Reception

The website has misreported news on multiple occasions, according to fact-checkers including Alt News and Boom. [17] Columnists working for Swarajya have allegedly engaged in a variety of trolling over Twitter. [34] Journalists working for Swarajya have propagated communally charged fake news via their personal accounts. [35] [36] [37] [38] Swarajya was blacklisted from Wikipedia in 2020 alongside OpIndia and Hindu nationalist website TFIpost. [39]

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