kolkata eddie mooneys 1989 classic love in your eyes captures the image of youths donning fashionable tees masks and goggles giggling their way to the poll booths and a group of elderlies dressed in their smart attires sipping on tea and lemon juice in paper cups waiting for a solitary autorickshaw that has been shuttling between the cluster of redbrick buildings and the poll booth at elias meyer school on cr avenue barely 150 metres awayat a time when a large number of voters in kolkata didnt step out to vote in the shadow of covid fears a 300strong anglo indian community at bow barracks in north kolkata voted in a festive mood on thursday the residents young and old said they wouldnt miss their votes come what maythere has not been a single occasion in my life when i have missed voting voting infuses in me a certain appeal that helps me grow a stronger bond with this country and this city which has been my home since birth how can i miss it said 67yearold janice rozario adjusting her mask tightly around her face while speakingbow barracks one of the original addresses of the angloindian community of kolkata is now a conglomeration of chinese south indian and muslims along with the anglo indian communities and home to 144 families with 300odd valid voters at a time when voter turnout in entire north kolkata was only 5785 with chowringhee contributing only 5198 at bow barracks situated in the same constituency 280 voters out of a total of 300 cast their votes as per an estimate by community party workersalmost everyone voted here there were only a few elderly residents who were either too sick or immobile and were refrained from going to cast their votes said dionne alexander a resident who was also overseeing that every senior citizen was transported to the venue and didnt have to walk under the sunprior to the elections restoration of the crumbling buildings was the primary sore point of the residents living here but in january this year the standoff between the residents and the kit who had flagged the buildings as dilapidated and unsafe for human use in 1980 and had stopped repairs had ended and kmda began fresh restoration of the buildings