“Great governments benefit by criticism, without which they are bound to deteriorate in self-complacency and unchecked self-will”.

This from a piece called “Value of Frank Criticism” by Rajagopalachari from the launch of Swarajya, circa 1956.

In a piece from 2014, I had wondered if the new Swarajya will live up to this legacy while offering us right-liberal commentary.

It& #39;s terrible that a generation of young readers will now associate Swarajya with dishonest lumpens like Swati and Co. https://www.newslaundry.com/2014/09/11/a-new-swarajya">https://www.newslaundry.com/2014/09/1...

This should come as no surprise though. Swarajya& #39;s co-founder and executive editor @trvivek had come to know within a year where the website was headed: "The hatred towards certain journalists perceived as & #39;compromised& #39; had turned into contempt for the very craft of journalism."

From his piece in @thecaravanindia: "...what we [at Swarajya 2.0] were trying to palm off as journalism was nothing other than the opinions of friends, reheated on hobs of self-righteousness, fired by anger and garnished with a generous dash of our in-house sauce of ideology."

"Every second piece that came to our desks for publication—be it on cricket, cinema or civic pride—would inevitably be an evisceration of Nehruvian socialism, written by someone not yet twenty-five." https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/j-minus-model-can-digital-media-outfits-survive-without-journalists-their-newsrooms">https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/j...