Impulse Magazine

We’ve been putting out Impulse Magazine from here in Jalpaiguri for a while now. It’s not like those big city offices you see on TV. Our place is a bit cramped with stacks of old issues and boxes of paper. We spend a lot of time talking to local folks and trying to get their stories down. Jalpaiguri is a quiet enough town, but there’s always something happening if you look close enough. We write about what we see. Some days we’re out taking photos and other days we’re just sitting at the computers trying to make the layout look right before we go to print. It’s a lot of work for a small team. We get ink on our hands and stay up late when a deadline is coming up. We don’t have any fancy investors or a big marketing team. It’s just us trying to keep the magazine going. Sometimes the printer acts up or we run out of a specific kind of paper, and we have to figure it out. We like being part of the community here. People sometimes drop by the office just to say hello or tell us about something they saw. We listen and we write it down. It’s just a local magazine, nothing more and nothing less. We keep it going because we like the process of making something you can hold in your hand. That's the whole story.