Swarajya (magazine) explained

Swarajya
Editor:
Editor Title:Editorial Directors
Editor2:
Editor Title2:Editorial Advisory Board
Category:News magazine
Frequency:Monthly (2015–present)
Weekly (1956–1980)
Publisher:V. Murali
Amarnath Govindarajan
Founder:Khasa Subba Rao
Founded:1956
Company:Bharathan Publications Private Limited (1956–2014)
Kovai Media Private Limited (2014–present)
Country:India
Based:Coimbatore/Bengaluru (2014–present)
Chennai (1956–1980)
Language:English
Oclc:3999897

Swarajya is an Indian right-wing monthly print magazine and news portal. The publication reports favourably on the Bharatiya Janata Party and has published misinformation on many occasions.[2] [3] [4]

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.[5]

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.[6] [7]

The magazine strongly advocated individual freedom and freedom of enterprise as against Nehru's socialist policies.[8] Minoo Masani, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, and R. K. Laxman have contributed to the magazine.[9] [10] After Rajagopalachari's death in 1972, the magazine slowly began to decline and eventually closed in 1980.

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.[11] 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. The magazine describes itself as "a big tent for liberal right of centre discourse".

In October 2016, it acquired OpIndia; in 2018, it became an independent entity.[12] In 2018, Swarajya launched its Hindi edition.[13]

Reception

The website has misreported news on multiple occasions, according to fact-checkers including Alt News and Boom. Columnists working for Swarajya have allegedly engaged in a variety of trolling over Twitter. Journalists working for Swarajya have propagated communally charged fake news via their personal accounts.[14] [15] [16] [17] Swarajya was blacklisted from Wikipedia in 2020 alongside OpIndia and Hindu nationalist website TFIpost.[18]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Us. Swarajya. 23 May 2020.
  2. Web site: Stage set for Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping's Mamallapuram summit amid row over Kashmir. Emmanuel. Gladwin. Pune Mirror. en. 23 January 2020. 10 October 2019.
  3. Web site: 23 May 2020. Grandma of an opening. The Telegraph. en. Arnab. Ganguly. 6 March 2018.
  4. Web site: Opinion: Lutyen's Media's Attempt To Paint The Anti-CAA Agitation As 'Secular' Was Hypocritic Outlook India Magazine. 6 August 2020. Outlook India.
  5. News: Re-launching Swarajya, a voice for India's new Right. The Hindu. 29 January 2015. Venkatesh. M. R..
  6. News: Remembering Rajagopalachari the writer, with Kalki. https://web.archive.org/web/20140715065015/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Remembering-Rajaji-the-writer-with-Kalki/2013/12/09/article1935468.ece. dead. 15 July 2014. 16 June 2014. The New Indian Express. 9 December 2013.
  7. News: Contributions of Rajaji and Kalki hailed. https://web.archive.org/web/20140715065146/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/article230580.ece . dead . 15 July 2014 . 16 June 2014. The New Indian Express. 16 May 2014.
  8. News: Comrades, friends, rivals . https://web.archive.org/web/20030609000710/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2003/05/25/stories/2003052500010100.htm . dead . 9 June 2003 . 16 June 2014 . . 25 May 2003.
  9. Web site: EDITORIALS BY SHRI R. VENKATARAMAN FOR 'SWARAJYA' . President Venkataraman. 16 June 2014.
  10. News: For over five decades RK Laxman immortalised passive, hapless common man . 26 January 2015 . Daily News & Analysis. Pune . 15 April 2015.
  11. News: Rajagopalachari's 'Swarajya' to be relaunched soon . Shuchi . Bansal . 17 September 2014 . Livemint. 15 April 2015.
  12. Web site: 19 March 2020. Tables Turn on Twitter's Hindutva Warriors, and It's the BJP Doing the Strong-Arming. Aleesha. Matharu. The Wire.
  13. Web site: Swarajya on Twitter. Twitter. Swarajya. 24 March 2019.
  14. Web site: Video of ABVP member assaulting AISA student shared by journalists as Left parties attacking ABVP. 6 January 2020. Alt News. en-GB. 11 January 2020.
  15. Web site: Opindia, MyNation, Postcard News declare Umar Khalid "not attacked" based on a false testimony. Chaudhuri. Pooja. 13 August 2018. Alt News. en-GB. 11 January 2020.
  16. Web site: Balrampur Puja Procession Violence Pre-Planned? Cops Deny Claims. 9 October 2019. The Quint. en. 11 January 2020.
  17. Web site: 'Learn VFX': Anurag Kashyap responds to Shefali Vaidya's tweet claiming Aishe Ghosh faked her injuries. Free Press Journal. en. 23 January 2020.
  18. Web site: Ayush. Tiwari. 29 June 2020. OpIndia: Hate speech, vanishing advertisers, and an undisclosed BJP connection. Newslaundry. 23 June 2020.

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