''Swarajya'' is an Indian
right-wing
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monthly print
magazine
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and
news portal. The publication reports favourably on the
Bharatiya Janata Party
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and has published misinformation on many occasions.
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.
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.
The magazine strongly advocated individual freedom and freedom of enterprise as against Nehru's socialist policies.
Minoo Masani,
Ramaswamy Venkataraman, and
R. K. Laxman have contributed to the magazine.
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.
Coimbatore
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-based Kovai Media Private Limited purchased the rights to the magazine from
Chennai
Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...
-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. In 2018, ''Swarajya'' launched its Hindi edition.
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.
''Swarajya'' was
blacklisted from
Wikipedia
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in 2020 alongside ''
OpIndia'' and
Hindu nationalist website ''TFIpost''.
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