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Aasheesh Sharma turns the page at Outlook; joins as digital editor
NEW DELHI: A new year, a new masthead — and a familiar byline with sharper elbows. Aasheesh Sharma has joined Outlook as digital editor, marking both a personal reset for 2026 and a symbolic moment for a magazine turning 30 and refusing to go quietly into middle age.
After nearly four years with the TV9 Group — most recently as deputy editor and copy head at News9 Plus, the world’s first news OTT platform — Sharma is stepping into his third professional decade at what he calls an “iconic media brand”. He landed just in time for Outlook’s 30th anniversary double edition, a statement issue packed with heavyweight writers and unapologetically high-brow ambition.
Under editor Chinki Sinha, Outlook is doubling down on what once made it indispensable: sharp ideas, long reads and intellectual swagger. Recent issues have featured names such as Perumal Murugan, Pico Iyer, Amitava Kumar, Janice Pariat and Sudarshan Shetty — not exactly clickbait fodder, and proudly so. Sharma’s brief is to push that legacy through a digital-first filter, without sanding off its edges.
The move crowns a career spanning nearly three decades across wires, newspapers, television, digital platforms and OTT. Sharma has worked with Hindustan Times, India Today, NDTV, IANS, Mail Today and Apeejay Education Society, editing everything from front pages and anniversary issues to op-eds, features and magazine covers. He has written on politics, sport, books, art and culture — often in the same breath — and is known in newsrooms as a meticulous desk hand with a flair for packaging and punch.
At TV9, he also fronted The Storytellers, a long-form interview show on books and authors, winning an Indiantelevision.com News Television Award for OTT programming in December 2023. It burnished his reputation as an editor comfortable straddling seriousness and showmanship — a useful skill as media houses chase depth without losing eyeballs.
Outlook, meanwhile, is signalling intent. In an age of shrill opinion and thin gruel journalism, it is betting that ideas still matter — provided they are well edited, well designed and smartly distributed. Sharma’s role is to make sure the pixels carry as much weight as the print once did.
A fresh year, an old magazine, and an editor who has seen every format reinvent itself at least twice. If journalism is cyclical, this feels less like a leap of faith and more like muscle memory. The newsroom lights are on — and Outlook, once again, is sharpening its view.
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Paisabazaar launches Credit Premier League 2.0
Nationwide campaign rewards highest credit scores with Rs 1 lakh top prize.
MUMBAI: When credit scores become a national league, even your CIBIL report starts feeling like it’s playing in the IPL and Paisabazaar has just kicked off the second season. Paisabazaar, India’s leading marketplace for financial products and the country’s largest free credit score platform, has announced the return of the Credit Premier League (CPL) 2.0, a fun, nationwide initiative to recognise and reward individuals with the highest credit scores.
Building on the success of the first edition, CPL 2.0 introduces higher rewards and broader participation. The individual(s) with the highest credit score in the country will win Rs 1 lakh, while state champions will each receive Rs 10,000. Additionally, all participants from the winning state, the one with the highest average credit score will also be rewarded.
All winnings will be credited directly to winners’ PB Wallet, allowing them to pay credit card bills, recharge mobiles, or settle utility bills seamlessly on the Paisabazaar platform.
Paisabazaar CEO Santosh Agarwal said the campaign aims to make credit awareness more engaging and mainstream. “With CPL, we are bringing together engagement, gamification and rewards to make conversations around credit scores more mainstream,” he noted. “Our focus remains on building a financially aware and credit-healthy Bharat.”
The first edition of CPL saw over 5.5 million participants, with the highest individual score touching 861. Delhi recorded the highest average credit score of 746.
Consumers can participate simply by checking their free credit score on the Paisabazaar platform or app. The CPL leaderboard and rankings will be available exclusively on the Paisabazaar App.
In a country where financial dreams are serious business, Paisabazaar has found a smart way to turn credit scores into an exciting game – because when your financial health gets rewarded, everyone wants to play.
