Swarajya(magazine)
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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 |
Swarajyais an Indianright-wing[13]monthly printmagazineandnews portal.The publication reports favourably on theBharatiya Janata Partyand 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 ofC. 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
Swarajyawas launched as a weekly magazine in 1956 by journalist Khasa Subba Rao, under the patronage ofC. Rajagopalachari,a prominent independence activist and one of the founders of theSwatantra Party.[18][19]
The magazine strongly advocated individual freedom and freedom of enterprise as against Nehru's socialist policies.[20]Minoo Masani,Ramaswamy Venkataraman,andR. K. Laxmanhave 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 fromChennai-based Bharathan Publishers, along with 40,000 pages from the earlier editions of the magazine.[23]The magazine describes itself as "abig tentfor liberal right of centre discourse ".[1]
In October 2016, it acquiredOpIndia;in 2018, it became an independent entity.[24]In 2018,Swarajyalaunched its Hindi edition.[25]
Reception
The website has misreported news on multiple occasions, according to fact-checkers includingAlt Newsand Boom.[29]Columnists working forSwarajyahave allegedly engaged in a variety of trolling over Twitter.[34]Journalists working forSwarajyahave propagated communally charged fake news via their personal accounts.[35][36][37][38]SwarajyawasblacklistedfromWikipediain 2020 alongsideOpIndiaandHindu nationalistwebsiteTFIpost.[39]
References
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- ^Kumar, Basant (3 January 2020)."Fake news, lies, Muslim bashing, and Ravish Kumar: Inside OpIndia's harrowing world".Newslaundry.Retrieved23 May2020.
- ^"Did Mani Ratnam Sign Letter Written to Modi Over Mob Lynching? Yes".The Quint.30 July 2019.Retrieved23 May2020.
- ^Bhushan, Sandeep (26 January 2017)."Arnab's Republic hints at mainstreaming right-wing opinion as a business".Business Standard.Retrieved23 May2020.
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- ^Chakravarty, Ipsita (25 June 2019)."'Tukde, tukde gang': How the BJP has used misinformation in the JNU sedition case to stifle dissent ".Scroll.in.Retrieved23 May2020.
- ^ab"'I see a confident trans person': Siddharth slams Shefali Vaidya ".Free Press Journal.10 January 2020.Retrieved23 January2020.
- ^Matharu, Aleesha (20 November 2019)."#RightSideUp: A Tale of Two Universities, 'Hindu Guilt'".The Wire.Retrieved23 January2020.
- ^abSinha, Pratik (20 August 2017)."Swarajya magazine and Jaideep Mazumdar spread falsehood about Suhrawardy Avenue in Kolkata".Alt News.Retrieved10 January2020.
- ^abChowdhury, Archis (8 January 2020)."Swarajya Peddles Misinformation About Deepika Padukone's Chhapaak".Boom.Retrieved11 January2020.
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- ^Ganguly, Arnab (6 March 2018)."Grandma of an opening".The Telegraph.Retrieved23 May2020.
- ^"Opinion: Lutyen's Media's Attempt To Paint The Anti-CAA Agitation As 'Secular' Was Hypocritic | Outlook India Magazine".Outlook India.Retrieved6 August2020.
- ^Venkatesh, M. R. (29 January 2015)."Re-launching Swarajya, a voice for India's new Right".The Hindu.
- ^"Remembering Rajagopalachari the writer, with Kalki".The New Indian Express.9 December 2013. Archived fromthe originalon 15 July 2014.Retrieved16 June2014.
- ^"Contributions of Rajaji and Kalki hailed".The New Indian Express.16 May 2014. Archived fromthe originalon 15 July 2014.Retrieved16 June2014.
- ^"Comrades, friends, rivals".The Hindu.25 May 2003. Archived fromthe originalon 9 June 2003.Retrieved16 June2014.
- ^"EDITORIALS BY SHRI R. VENKATARAMAN FOR 'SWARAJYA'".President Venkataraman.Retrieved16 June2014.
- ^"For over five decades RK Laxman immortalised passive, hapless common man".Daily News & Analysis.Pune. 26 January 2015.Retrieved15 April2015.
- ^abcBansal, Shuchi (17 September 2014)."Rajagopalachari's 'Swarajya' to be relaunched soon".Livemint.Retrieved15 April2015.
- ^Matharu, Aleesha."Tables Turn on Twitter's Hindutva Warriors, and It's the BJP Doing the Strong-Arming".The Wire.Retrieved19 March2020.
- ^"Swarajya on Twitter".Twitter.Swarajya.Retrieved24 March2019.
- ^Patel, Jignesh (8 September 2018)."Misleading reporting by Swarajya and Postcard News about Hardik Patel's weight gain during fast".Alt News.Retrieved10 January2020.
- ^Chaudhuri, Pooja (8 January 2020)."Does 'Chhapaak' portray acid attack convict as a Hindu named 'Rajesh'? No, false claim".Alt News.Retrieved10 January2020.
- ^Alphonso, Anmol (11 December 2019)."Dainik Bhaskar, Amar Ujala And Swarajya Misquote Scindia About Support To Citizen Amendment Bill".Boom.Retrieved11 January2020.
- ^[11][12][26][27][28]
- ^"Tables Turn on Twitter's Hindutva Warriors, and It's the BJP Doing the Strong-Arming".The Wire.Retrieved10 January2020.
- ^"'Ban Her': Twitterati Slam Shefali Vaidya for 'Transphobic' Post ".The Quint.10 January 2020.Retrieved23 January2020.
- ^Daniyal, Shoaib."Modi goes secular? BJP's minimum outreach to Muslims is causing heartburn among party's supporters".Scroll.in.Retrieved23 January2020.
- ^"Yes, I am a woman and I am angry".The New Indian Express.Retrieved23 January2020.
- ^[9][30][31][32][33]
- ^"Video of ABVP member assaulting AISA student shared by journalists as Left parties attacking ABVP".Alt News.6 January 2020.Retrieved11 January2020.
- ^Chaudhuri, Pooja (13 August 2018)."Opindia, MyNation, Postcard News declare Umar Khalid" not attacked "based on a false testimony".Alt News.Retrieved11 January2020.
- ^"Balrampur Puja Procession Violence Pre-Planned? Cops Deny Claims".The Quint.9 October 2019.Retrieved11 January2020.
- ^"'Learn VFX': Anurag Kashyap responds to Shefali Vaidya's tweet claiming Aishe Ghosh faked her injuries ".Free Press Journal.Retrieved23 January2020.
- ^Tiwari, Ayush (23 June 2020)."OpIndia: Hate speech, vanishing advertisers, and an undisclosed BJP connection".Newslaundry.Retrieved29 June2020.
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