Swarajya_(magazine)

<i>Swarajya</i> (magazine)

Swarajya (magazine)

Indian right-wing magazine

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]

Quick Facts Editorial Directors, Editorial Advisory Board ...

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.[17]

History

First page of Swarajya Magazine's first issue.

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.[18][19]

The magazine strongly advocated individual freedom and freedom of enterprise as against Nehru's socialist policies.[20] Minoo Masani, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, and R. K. Laxman have contributed to the magazine.[21][22] After Rajagopalachari's death in 1972, the magazine slowly began to decline and eventually closed in 1980.[23]

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.[23] 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.[23] 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.[24] In 2018, Swarajya launched its Hindi edition.[25]

Reception

The website has misreported news on multiple occasions, according to fact-checkers including Alt News and Boom.[29] 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]

References

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    "About Us". Swarajya. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
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