Samar Halarnkar
Samar Halarnkar | |
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| Born | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Title | Editor, IndiaSpend.com |
| Spouse | Priya Ramani |
Samar Halarnkar is editor of IndiaSpend.com.[1] He also contributes to Mint, the business newspaper from Hindustan Times group.
Early life and Career
Samar Halarnkar was born in north Karnataka. He has an M.A degree from University of Missouri, U.S.. He started his career in print media in the year 1990 with The Times of India, Bangalore as a crime reporter.
In 2002, Samar 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 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 issue. He also writes on food and cooking in his blog titled 'Our Daily Bread'.
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.[2][3][4]
References
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Madhu Trehan & Team. "All Facts,No Conjecture". Newslaundry. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
- ^ "Ranjona Banerji: So is Samar Halarnkar unfairly accused of plagiarism?". MXMIndia.com. 13 September 2012.
- ^ "Mihir S Sharma: The season of plagiarism - How the world's definition of plagiarism is changing -- but India's ethics are not". Business Standard. 20 January 2013.