Swarajya (magazine)

Swarajya

Front page of the May 2015 issue of Swarajya
Editorial Director R. Jagannathan
Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) Jerry Rao
EAB Surjit Bhalla
EAB Swapan Dasgupta[1]
Categories News magazine
Frequency Monthly (since 2015)
Weekly (1956-1980)
Publisher V.Murali
Amarnath Govindarajan
Founder Khasa Subba Rao
Year founded 1956
First issue 14 July 1956 (1956-07-14)
Company Bharathan Publications Private Limited (1956-2014)
Kovai Media Private Limited (2014-present)
Country India
Based in Coimbatore (since 2014)
Chennai (1956-1980)
Language English
Website swarajyamag.com
OCLC number 3999897

Swarajya is a monthly print magazine and online daily. It was a weekly magazine founded in 1956 by Khasa Subba Rao with the patronage of C. Rajagopalachari, one of the founders of the Swatantra Party, and a regular contributor to the magazine in the form of his Dear Reader column. Minoo Masani, R.Venkatraman, R.K. Laxman are some notable personalities who contributed to the magazine. After Rajaji's death in 1972, the magazine began to decline and eventually closed in 1980.

The magazine was relaunched as a monthly print magazine and online daily in 2014, with Sandipan Deb as the Editorial Director.[2] The website was launched in September 2014, and the first edition of the print magazine was launched in January 2015. Currently R. Jagannathan is Editorial Director of Swarajya.

History

First page of Swarajya Magazine's first issue.

Swarajya was launched as a weekly magazine in 1956 by journalist Khasa Subba Rao,[3] with the patronage of C. Rajagopalachari, one of the founders of the Swatantra Party,[4] and a regular contributor to the magazine in the form of his Dear Reader column.[5] The magazine strongly advocated individual freedom and freedom of enterprise as against Nehru's socialist policies. Swarajya enjoyed a reputation of being one of few magazines that argued against collectivist and statist policies of the ruling Indian National Congress.[6][7] Minoo Masani, R.Venkatraman, R.K. Laxman are some notable personalities who contributed to the magazine.[8][9][10] After Rajaji's death in 1972, the magazine began to decline and eventually closed in 1980.[11]

Relaunch

The magazine was relaunched as a monthly print magazine and online daily in 2014, with Sandipan Deb as the Editorial Director. The website was launched in September 2014 by renowned spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,[12] and 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.[11] The magazine states on its website that it "remains committed to the ideals of individual liberty unmediated by the State or any other institution, freedom of expression and enterprise, national interest, and India's vast and ancient cultural heritage". Swarajya describes itself as "a big tent for liberal right of centre discourse that reaches out, engages and caters to the new India".[1]

Editors and notable contributors

References

  1. 1 2 http://swarajyamag.com/about-swarajya/
  2. ↑ "Re-launching Swarajya, a voice for India's new Right".
  3. ↑ "OGLC Worldcat". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "Remembering Rajaji the writer, with Kalki". The New Indian Express. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Contributions of Rajaji and Kalki hailed". The New Indian Express. 16 May 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "We need a Museum of Liberty in India. (And: a note on the Swarajya magazine)". http://www.sabhlokcity.com/. March 9, 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  7. ↑ "Comrades, friends, rivals". The Hindu. May 25, 2003. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "EDITORIALS BY SHRI R. VENKATARAMAN FOR 'SWARAJYA'". http://www.presidentvenkataraman.in/. Retrieved 16 June 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  9. ↑ Laxman. The Tunnel of Time (autobiography). Penguin India. pp. 66–72.
  10. ↑ "For over five decades RK Laxman immortalised passive, hapless common man". Daily News and Analysis. Pune. 26 January 2015. Retrieved Apr 15, 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 Bansal, Shuchi (17 September 2014). "Rajagopalachari's 'Swarajya' to be relaunched soon". Livemint. Retrieved Apr 15, 2015.
  12. ↑ https://plus.google.com/+SriSriRaviShankar/posts/V5W1yrku2kT
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