Samar Halarnkar
Samar Halarnkar was editor of IndiaSpend.com. 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.
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.
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.