Gulbootay Magazine

Gulbootay Magazine is tucked away in Mumbai Central, specifically at Shop No 28 in the Patel Arcade Grou on the ground floor. It’s a small office, mostly filled with stacks of old issues, boxes of paper, and a couple of computers that have seen better days. We put together the magazine right here. It’s a lot of editing, picking out photos, and making sure the printers have what they need. Some days are quiet when we are just reading through drafts, but when the deadline gets close, it gets pretty frantic. We don't have a big corporate office with a view; we just have our little shop in the arcade. People walk by the window all day on their way to other shops. Sometimes a regular reader will stop in to say they liked an article or to complain about a typo we missed. We try our best to get everything right, but mistakes happen when you're a small team. We enjoy the process of putting a story together and seeing it in print. It’s a lot of work for a few pages, but it’s what we do. We’ve been in this spot for a while and we’re used to the noise of the arcade. It’s a practical space where we just focus on getting the next issue out on time. We usually have the radio playing in the background while we work.