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| logo = Swarajya logo.png
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| image_file = Swarajya May 2015 issue front page.jpg
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| image_caption = Front page of the May 2015 issue of ''Swarajya''
| editor = {{plainlist|
* R. Jagannathan
* [[Sandipan Deb]]
}}
| editor_title = Editorial Directors
| editor2 = {{plainlist|
* [[Jerry Rao]]
* [[Surjit Bhalla]]
* [[Swapan Dasgupta]]
* Manish Sabharwal<ref name="about">{{cite web|url=https://swarajyamag.com/about-us|title=About Us|website=Swarajya|access-date=23 May 2020}}</ref>}}
| editor_title2 = Editorial Advisory Board
| category = [[News magazine]]
| frequency = Monthly (2015–present) Weekly (1956–1980)
| format =
| circulation =
| publisher = V. Murali Amarnath Govindarajan
| paid_circulation =
| unpaid_circulation =
| circulation_year =
| total_circulation =
| founder = Khasa Subba Rao
| founded = 1956
| firstdate = {{Start date|df=yes|1956|7|14}}
| finaldate =
| finalnumber =
| 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 language|English]]
| website = {{URL|https://swarajyamag.com/about-us}}
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'''''Swarajya''''' is an Indian [[right-wing]]{{refn|<ref name="IJNE">{{cite book|first1=Kalyani|last1=Chadha|first2=Prashanth|last2=Bhat|editor-first=Shakuntala|editor-last=Rao|title=Indian Journalism in a New Era: Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives|chapter=The media are biased: Exploring online right wing responses to mainstream news media in India|chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322277601|date=14 February 2019|isbn=9780199490820|pages=115–140|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|via=[[ResearchGate]]|access-date=23 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=23 May 2020|title=Arab fury erupts on BJP MP for tweet on women|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/arab-fury-erupts-on-bjp-mp-for-tweet-on-women/cid/1766686|website=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]|language=en|first1=K.M.|last1=Rakesh|date=21 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/01/03/fake-news-lies-muslim-bashing-and-ravish-kumar-inside-opindias-harrowing-world|title=Fake news, lies, Muslim bashing, and Ravish Kumar: Inside OpIndia's harrowing world|last1=Kumar|first1=Basant|date=3 January 2020|work=[[Newslaundry]]|access-date=23 May 2020|language=en-UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=23 May 2020|title=Did Mani Ratnam Sign Letter Written to Modi Over Mob Lynching? Yes|url=https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/did-mani-ratnam-sign-the-letter-written-to-modi-over-mob-lynching-fact-check|date=30 July 2019|website=[[The Quint]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Bhushan|first1=Sandeep|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/arnab-s-republic-hints-at-mainstreaming-right-wing-opinion-as-a-business-117012600235_1.html|title=Arnab's Republic hints at mainstreaming right-wing opinion as a business|date=26 January 2017|work=[[Business Standard]]|access-date=23 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theprint.in/politics/bjp-supporters-have-a-secret-weapon-in-their-online-poll-campaign-satire/232321/|title=BJP supporters have a secret weapon in their online poll campaign — satire|last1=Mihindukulasuriya|first1=Regina|date=8 May 2019|website=[[ThePrint]]|language=en-US|access-date=23 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Ipsita|last1=Chakravarty|access-date=23 May 2020|title='Tukde, tukde gang': How the BJP has used misinformation in the JNU sedition case to stifle dissent|url=https://scroll.in/article/927972/tukde-tukde-gang-how-the-bjp-has-used-the-jnu-sedition-case-to-stifle-dissent|website=[[Scroll.in]]|date=25 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/i-see-a-confident-trans-person-siddharth-slams-shefali-vaidya|title='I see a confident trans person': Siddharth slams Shefali Vaidya|website=[[Free Press Journal]]|language=en|access-date=23 January 2020|date=10 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/media/rightsideup-a-tale-of-two-universities-hindu-guilt|title=#RightSideUp: A Tale of Two Universities, 'Hindu Guilt'|website=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]|date=20 November 2019|access-date=23 January 2020|first1=Aleesha|last1=Matharu}}</ref><ref name="Alt News Suhrawardy" /><ref name="Boom Chhapaak" />}} monthly print [[magazine]] and [[news portal]]. The publication reports favourably on the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref name="IJNE" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/news/india/stage-set-for-narendra-modi-xi-jinpings-mamallapuram-summit-amid-row-over-kashmir/articleshow/71522808.cms|title=Stage set for Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping's Mamallapuram summit amid row over Kashmir|last1=Emmanuel|first1=Gladwin|website=[[Pune Mirror]]|language=en|access-date=23 January 2020|date=10 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=23 May 2020|title=Grandma of an opening|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/grandma-of-an-opening/cid/1347116|website=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]|language=en|first1=Arnab|last1=Ganguly|date=6 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Opinion: Lutyen's Media's Attempt To Paint The Anti-CAA Agitation As 'Secular' Was Hypocritic {{!}} Outlook India Magazine|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/india-news-opinion-lutyens-medias-attempt-to-paint-the-anti-caa-agitation-as-secular-was-hypocritic/302847|access-date=6 August 2020|website=Outlook India}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/interview-with-author-sandipan-deb-on-the-relaunch-of-swarajya-magazine-a-voice-for-indias-new-right/article6830231.ece |title=Re-launching Swarajya, a voice for India's new Right|newspaper=The Hindu|date=29 January 2015|last1=Venkatesh|first1=M. R.}}</ref>

According to fact-checking websites including [[Alt News]], ''Swarajya'' has misreported news on multiple occasions.<ref name="misreporting" />

== History ==
[[File:Swarajya first mag first page.jpg|thumb|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]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Remembering Rajagopalachari the writer, with Kalki|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Remembering-Rajaji-the-writer-with-Kalki/2013/12/09/article1935468.ece|access-date=16 June 2014|work=[[The New Indian Express]]|date=9 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Contributions of Rajaji and Kalki hailed|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/article230580.ece |access-date=16 June 2014|work=[[The New Indian Express]]|date=16 May 2014}}</ref>

The magazine strongly advocated individual freedom and freedom of enterprise as against Nehru's socialist policies.<ref>{{cite news |title=Comrades, friends, rivals |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2003/05/25/stories/2003052500010100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030609000710/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2003/05/25/stories/2003052500010100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 June 2003 |access-date=16 June 2014 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=25 May 2003}}</ref> [[Minoo Masani]], [[Ramaswamy Venkataraman]], and [[R. K. Laxman]] have contributed to the magazine.<ref>{{cite web |title=EDITORIALS BY SHRI R. VENKATARAMAN FOR 'SWARAJYA' |url=http://www.presidentvenkataraman.in/swarajya.html|work=President Venkataraman|access-date=16 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="immortalised">{{cite news |title=For over five decades RK Laxman immortalised passive, hapless common man |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-for-over-five-decades-rk-laxman-immortalised-passive-hapless-common-man-2055864 |date=26 January 2015 |work=[[Daily News & Analysis]]|location=Pune |access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref> After Rajagopalachari's death in 1972, the magazine slowly began to decline and eventually closed in 1980.<ref name="relaunch" />

=== 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.<ref name="relaunch">{{cite news |title=Rajagopalachari's 'Swarajya' to be relaunched soon |url=http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/DwmLpRVJAHcanTLOrwtN2J/Rajagopalacharis-Swarajya-to-be-relaunched-soon.html |first1=Shuchi |last1=Bansal |date=17 September 2014 |work=Livemint|access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref> [[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.<ref name="relaunch" /> The magazine describes itself as "a [[big tent]] for liberal right of centre discourse".<ref name="about" />

In October 2016, it acquired [[OpIndia]]; in 2018, it became an independent entity.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=19 March 2020|title=Tables Turn on Twitter's Hindutva Warriors, and It's the BJP Doing the Strong-Arming|first1=Aleesha|last1=Matharu|url=https://thewire.in/media/twitter-handles-bjp-free-speech-right-wing-media|website=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]}}</ref> In 2018, ''Swarajya'' launched its Hindi edition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/SwarajyaMag/status/1029285119880654849|title=Swarajya on Twitter|website=Twitter|publisher=Swarajya|access-date=24 March 2019}}</ref>

== Criticism ==
The website has misreported news on multiple occasions, according to fact-checkers including [[Alt News]] and Boom.{{refn|name=misreporting|<ref name="Alt News Suhrawardy">{{Cite web|url=https://www.altnews.in/swarajya-magazine-jaideep-mazumdar-spread-falsehood-suhrawardy-avenue-calcutta/|title=Swarajya magazine and Jaideep Mazumdar spread falsehood about Suhrawardy Avenue in Kolkata|last1=Sinha|first1=Pratik|date=20 August 2017|website=[[Alt News]]|language=en-GB|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="Boom Chhapaak">{{Cite web|url=https://www.boomlive.in/fake-news/swarajya-peddles-misinformation-about-deepika-padukones-chhapaak-6515|title=Swarajya Peddles Misinformation About Deepika Padukone's Chhapaak|last1=Chowdhury|first1=Archis|date=8 January 2020|website=Boom|language=en|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.altnews.in/misleading-reporting-by-swarajya-and-postcard-news-about-hardik-patels-weight-gain-during-fast/|title=Misleading reporting by Swarajya and Postcard News about Hardik Patel's weight gain during fast|last1=Patel|first1=Jignesh|date=8 September 2018|website=[[Alt News]]|language=en-GB|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.altnews.in/does-chhapaak-portray-acid-attack-convict-as-a-hindu-named-rajesh-no-false-claim/|title=Does 'Chhapaak' portray acid attack convict as a Hindu named 'Rajesh'? No, false claim|last1=Chaudhuri|first1=Pooja|date=8 January 2020|website=[[Alt News]]|language=en-GB|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boomlive.in/fake-news/dainik-bhaskar-amar-ujala-and-swarajya-misquotes-scindia-about-support-to-citizen-amendment-bill-6267|title=Dainik Bhaskar, Amar Ujala And Swarajya Misquote Scindia About Support To Citizen Amendment Bill|last1=Alphonso|first1=Anmol|date=11 December 2019|website=Boom|language=en|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>}} Columnists working for ''Swarajya'' have allegedly engaged in a variety of trolling over Twitter.{{refn|<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/media/twitter-handles-bjp-free-speech-right-wing-media|title=Tables Turn on Twitter's Hindutva Warriors, and It's the BJP Doing the Strong-Arming|website=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thequint.com/neon/social-buzz/shefali-vaidya-transphobic-tweet-image-photo-twitter-slammed-reactions|title='Ban Her': Twitterati Slam Shefali Vaidya for 'Transphobic' Post|date=10 January 2020|website=[[The Quint]]|language=en|access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/931915/modi-goes-secular-bjps-minimum-outreach-to-muslims-is-causing-heartburn-among-partys-supporters|title=Modi goes secular? BJP's minimum outreach to Muslims is causing heartburn among party's supporters|last1=Daniyal|first1=Shoaib|website=[[Scroll.in]]|language=en-US|access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2019/aug/01/yes-i-am-a-woman-and-i-am-angry-2012196.html|title=Yes, I am a woman and I am angry|website=[[The New Indian Express]]|access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.idiva.com/opinion/womens-issues/woman-shamed-for-asking-for-a-sanitary-pad-in-tweet-to-indian-railways/18001751|title=Woman Asks For Sanitary Pad On Train, Trolls Ask "What's Next? Condoms?"|date=30 July 2019|website=iDiva|language=en-IN|access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref>}} Journalists working for ''Swarajya'' have propagated communally charged fake news via their personal accounts, and the former has created fake reports for the website.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.altnews.in/video-of-abvp-member-assaulting-aisa-student-shared-by-journalists-as-left-parties-attacking-abvp/|title=Video of ABVP member assaulting AISA student shared by journalists as Left parties attacking ABVP|date=6 January 2020|website=[[Alt News]]|language=en-GB|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.altnews.in/opindia-mynation-postcard-news-declare-umar-khalid-not-attacked-based-on-a-false-testimony/|title=Opindia, MyNation, Postcard News declare Umar Khalid "not attacked" based on a false testimony|last1=Chaudhuri|first1=Pooja|date=13 August 2018|website=[[Alt News]]|language=en-GB|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/fake-news-suggesting-attack-on-durga-puja-procession-in-balrampur-was-pre-planned|title=Balrampur Puja Procession Violence Pre-Planned? Cops Deny Claims|date=9 October 2019|website=[[The Quint]]|language=en|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/entertainment/bollywood/learn-vfx-anurag-kashyap-responds-to-shefali-vaidyas-tweet-claiming-aishe-ghosh-faked-her-injuries|title='Learn VFX': Anurag Kashyap responds to Shefali Vaidya's tweet claiming Aishe Ghosh faked her injuries|website=Free Press Journal|language=en|access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref> ''Swarajya'' was [[Blacklist (computing)|blacklisted]] from [[Wikipedia]] in 2020 alongside ''[[OpIndia]]'' and [[Hindu nationalist]] website ''TFIpost''.<ref name="Newslaundry June 2020">{{cite web|first1=Ayush|last1=Tiwari|access-date=29 June 2020|title=OpIndia: Hate speech, vanishing advertisers, and an undisclosed BJP connection|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/06/23/opindia-hate-speech-vanishing-advertisers-and-an-undisclosed-bjp-connection|website=[[Newslaundry]]|date=23 June 2020}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=

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== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://swarajyamag.com/about-us}}

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[[Category:Right-wing politics in India]]
[[Category:English-language magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Monthly magazines published in India]]
[[Category:News magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1956]]
[[Category:Mass media in Bangalore]]
[[Category:Mass media in Chennai]]
[[Category:Mass media in Coimbatore]]
[[Category:Indian news websites]]

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