Editorial Directors |
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Editorial Advisory Board |
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Categories | News magazine |
Frequency | Monthly (2015–present) Weekly (1956–1980) |
Publisher | V. Murali Amarnath Govindarajan |
Founder | Khasa Subba Rao |
Founded | 1956 |
First issue | 14 July 1956 |
Company | Bharathan 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 |
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Editorial Directors |
|
---|---|
Editorial Advisory Board |
|
Categories | News magazine |
Frequency | Monthly (2015–present) Weekly (1956–1980) |
Publisher | V. Murali Amarnath Govindarajan |
Founder | Khasa Subba Rao |
Founded | 1956 |
First issue | 14 July 1956 |
Company | Bharathan 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 |
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]