[1] He also contributes to Mint, the business newspaper from Hindustan Times group, and is a columnist and editor of Article 14.
[2][3] Halarnkar started his career in print media in the year 1990 with The Times of India, Bangalore as a crime reporter.
[citation needed] He joined the Hindustan Times as editor, national investigations, in Mumbai in May 2006.
[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.
[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.