or most people, 28 is an age when their career is just warming up. But Maheshwer Peri got the �hot� opportunity to be the publisher of Outlook, one of India�s largest selling magazines. Today, 11 years down the line, he�s on the verge of starting out with his own group, Pathfinder Publishing, which will bring out publications dealing with education, information and knowledge.

Peri was not always a media person. An investment banker, he worked with SBI Capital Markets, the largest investment bank in India, from 1991 to 1995. He joined the Rajan Raheja Group, which owns Outlook magazine, in 1995 as an investment analyst with Hathway Investments. But publisher Deepak Shourie�s departure changed everything. ... more