Samar Halarnkar

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| birth_place = North Karnataka, India

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| occupation = Journalist, Editor

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| title = Editor, IndiaSpend.com, Article 14

| spouse = Priya Ramani

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Samar Halarnkar was editor of IndiaSpend.com.{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/my-daily-bread/ |title=Our Daily Bread |access-date=2011-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803104440/http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/my-daily-bread/ |archive-date=2011-08-03 |url-status=dead }} He also contributes to Mint, the business newspaper from Hindustan Times group, and is a columnist and editor of Article 14.

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/the-role-of-roast-pork-in-my-father-s-88th-year-11599806509136.html|title=Opinion The role of roast pork in my father's 88th year|first=Halarnkar|last=Samar|date=12 September 2020|website=Livement.com|publisher=Mint|accessdate=2 October 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/samar11/status/1283951216075186177|title=Samar Halarnkar on Twitter|date=17 July 2020|website=Twitter.com|accessdate=2 October 2020}}

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.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} 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.

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.{{cite web|last=Madhu Trehan & Team|title=All Facts, No Conjecture|date=11 September 2012 |url=http://www.newslaundry.com/2012/09/all-facts-no-conjecture/|publisher=Newslaundry|accessdate=12 September 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914064650/http://www.newslaundry.com/2012/09/all-facts-no-conjecture/ |archivedate=14 September 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mxmindia.com/2012/09/ranjona-banerji-so-is-samar-harlankar-unfairly-accused-of-plagiarism/|title=Ranjona Banerji: So is Samar Halarnkar unfairly accused of plagiarism?|date=13 September 2012|website=MXMIndia.com}}{{cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/mihir-s-sharma-the-season-of-plagiarism-112092000147_1.html|title=Mihir S Sharma: The season of plagiarism - How the world's definition of plagiarism is changing -- but India's ethics are not|first=Mihir|last=Sharma|date=20 January 2013|newspaper=Business Standard|accessdate=15 December 2019}}

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."{{cite news |title=India Love Project: The Instagram account telling tales of 'forbidden' love |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54869565 |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=BBC |date=November 10, 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Quint Neon |title=This Instagram Account Is Celebrating Indian Love Across Barriers |url=https://www.thequint.com/neon/social-buzz/india-love-project-instagram-account-celebrating-love |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The Quint |date=November 10, 2020}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Nair |first1=Shruti |title=HT Brunch Social Media Star of the Week: India Love Project |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/ht-brunch-social-media-star-of-the-week-india-love-project/story-qEXXPHrw3KNmCtw8hspXIM.html |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=Hindustan Times |date=December 13, 2020}} 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."{{cite news |last1=Bhimjyani |first1=Aditi |title=Love an honest love story? This is the one Instagram account telling it as it is |url=https://www.vogue.in/culture-and-living/content/love-an-honest-love-story-this-is-the-one-instagram-account-telling-it-as-it-is-india-love-project |access-date=24 December 2020 |work=Vogue India |date=December 13, 2020}}

Personal life

Halarnkar is married to the journalist Priya Ramani.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20110803104440/http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/my-daily-bread/ Blog by Samar Halarnkar]

Category:Journalists from Karnataka

Category:Living people

Category:University of Missouri alumni

Category:People from Uttara Kannada

Category:Hindustan Times journalists

Category:Indian male journalists

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)