Samar Halarnkar

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
Born
North Karnataka, India
OccupationJournalist, Editor
TitleEditor, IndiaSpend.com, Article 14
Spouse(s)Priya Ramani

Early life

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]

Career

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. 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]

India Love Project

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]

Personal life

Halarnkar is married to the journalist Priya Ramani.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 August 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Samar, Halarnkar (12 September 2020). "Opinion The role of roast pork in my father's 88th year". Livement.com. Mint. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  3. "Samar Halarnkar on Twitter". Twitter.com. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  4. Bhimjyani, Aditi (13 December 2020). "Love an honest love story? This is the one Instagram account telling it as it is". Vogue India. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  5. Madhu Trehan & Team. "All Facts,No Conjecture". Newslaundry. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  6. "Ranjona Banerji: So is Samar Halarnkar unfairly accused of plagiarism?". MXMIndia.com. 13 September 2012.
  7. Sharma, Mihir (20 January 2013). "Mihir S Sharma: The season of plagiarism - How the world's definition of plagiarism is changing -- but India's ethics are not". Business Standard. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  8. "India Love Project: The Instagram account telling tales of 'forbidden' love". BBC. 10 November 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  9. Quint Neon (10 November 2020). "This Instagram Account Is Celebrating Indian Love Across Barriers". The Quint. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  10. Nair, Shruti (13 December 2020). "HT Brunch Social Media Star of the Week: India Love Project". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 20 December 2020.


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