It's Saturday... and here's the best of this week in one PDF!

Here's your curated weekend read

Dear Reader,

Last Saturday we started with a new ritual — a curated weekend edition of Swarajya in PDF + digital editions.

With these weekend editions, our goal is to: curate the best news, analysis, and reportage from the barrage of endless digital content.

• In addition to our role as a publisher, you have encouraged us to act as a filter — a gatekeeper, a curator of sorts, ensuring you get only the best to read.

In the second edition of the weekend magazine, we bring to you an analysis of why BJP lost seats in UP:

- the 'SOCIAL' factors behind its performance,

- Division of Hindu votes on the caste lines,

- and how Akhilesh engineered SP's comeback!

This week PM Modi inaugurated the Nalanda University in its second coming after it was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khilji in the medieval era.

• However, that wasn't the only assault that Nalanda faced. Our weekend edition dives into how Amartya Sen nearly crippled Nalanda University’s revival!

And to round it all up Jaggi puts forward '5 Soft Hindutva Ideas' for Modi 3.0 that won't drive away the 'secular' allies in the coalition.

Check out the complete issue for the above and several more stories. Rest assured you will soon find that this is the best way to catch up on news and commentary of the week!

Between you & us, this has always been a conversation, a dialogue. Never a monologue. So, feel free to share any feedback—constructive or otherwise—by simply replying to this email.

You will be able to read this digital issue uninterrupted on the web, Swarajya's app, or download the PDF to read it anywhere, anytime after you subscribe. Last week's edition is here for you FREE, just so that you get to see how the product is. It is just an exact digital replica of our print flagship print editions.

You can either get a 1-year digital subscription for ₹1200 (or) for a limited time, as an introductory offer, get the 2-year subscription for ₹1600!

Yes, that is flat ₹800 off the regular price - subscribing won't take more than 2 minutes through this link. Sounds fair?

Happy Saturday, and over to Diksha next!

Anmol N Jai

🎙️The Pluralism Project: Your New Favorite Podcast!

Hi there!

We’re excited to introduce our new podcast, The Pluralism Project by Swarajya!

In this series, Aravindan Neelakandan will talk about Hindu Dharma, Hinduism, and Hindutva. (a chapter by chapter discussion of his book Hindutva - more about this later)

But to get started, the first episode of the series is already out on the app as well as on Spotify for your weekend listening.

In this episode, we majorly discuss two things:

1. What do Hindu Dharma, Hinduism, and Hindutva really mean

2. The emergence of Hindu consciousness

How were the negative connotations attributed to the term 'Hindutva' over time? Tune in to find out!

• Listen on Spotify

• Listen on the App

P.S. We would love to hear your suggestions and feedback. You can drop them on Spotify or at diksha@swarajyamag.com

Your host,

Diksha Yadav