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Samar Halarnkar | |
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| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Editor |
| Title | Editor, IndiaSpend.com, Article 14 |
| Spouse | Priya Ramani |
Samar Halarnkar was editor of IndiaSpend.com. [1] He also contributes to Mint , the business newspaper from Hindustan Times group, and is a columnist and editor of Article 14.
Samar Halarnkar was born in north Karnataka. He has an M.A degree from the University of Missouri.
Halarnkar's father, PG Halarnkar, was a retired Indian Police Service officer and former Commissioner of Police of Bengaluru. [2] [3]
Halarnkar started his career in print media in the year 1990 with The Times of India , Bangalore as a crime reporter.
In 2002, Halarnkar, when working with The Indian Express , daily wrote extensively on lending given by public sector banks to big industrialists such as Wipro, Tata and Mahindra & Mahindra. Before joining The Hindustan Times , he was resident editor, The Indian Express. Prior to Express, he has worked for other media houses like the India Today Group.[ citation needed ] He joined the Hindustan Times as editor, national investigations, in Mumbai in May 2006.
Samar Halarnkar writes on a variety of topics including poverty, social issues and economic issues. He also writes on food and cooking in his blog titled 'Our Daily Bread'. Halarnkar is a columnist and editor of Article 14, a website about the rule of law in India. [4]
In 2012 he was accused of plagiarising the work of Frances Moore Lappé for a part of one of his articles leading to mixed reactions from the journalistic community in India. [5] [6] [7]
On October 28, 2020, Halarnkar, his wife Priya Ramani, and their friend Niloufer Venkatraman created the India Love Project on Instagram, "a celebration of interfaith/inter-caste love and togetherness in these divisive, hate-filled times." [8] [9] The Project began in response to backlash against an advertising campaign that featured an interfaith couple, and has expanded to help couples find legal and counseling assistance. [10] A December 2020 Vogue India profile on the India Love Project quotes Halarnkar as explaining, "We see ILP as an attempt at unity, a chronicle of love outside the shackles of faith, caste, ethnicity and gender." [4]
Halarnkar is married to the journalist Priya Ramani.
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