Aveek Sarkar (Bengali: অভীক সরকার; born 9 June 1945) is an Indian newspaper promoter and proprietor.

Previously he was editor-in-chief of Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph.

[3] He played vital roles during the formation of Penguin India, the Indian counterpart of Penguin Books and during the acquisition of STAR News in 2003.

[2][4] Sarkar spent a year as an understudy to Sir Harold Evans in Britain, taking time to understand what went on at the previous two papers at which Evans had worked - The Northern Echo and the Manchester Evening News - before joining him at The Sunday Times.

He refrains from bringing most of these stances to his business and editorial meetings, according to a profile by Nicholas Coleridge in Paper Tigers.