the area there were huge open spaces of green in dover lane but the kuttys took their children to nearby singhi park by then they had shifted to their third house at 72b dover lane where they still live there were beautiful marble statues in the park and the grass was lush and well cared for the famous singhi park durga puja used to be held there today a squarish block of concrete stands there and the puja has been reduced to a street corner affair thankumani says a large part of the para used to be dominated by the singhis the local zamindars today the pantaloons building stands in its place govindan says in those days neither the dover lane post office nor the gariahat police station existed we had to walk down to the rashbehari avenue post office or the ekdalia police outpost a reference to the police outpost reminds govindan about an incident that took place in front of the couples dance school kalamandalam at 3 dover lane we used to have several young girls as students often some para urchins would gather to tease them one day it went out of control i simply came out and told them that i would complain to the police they disappeared and after about an hour headed by their leader came back to say sorry today that leader is the local councillor he recalls fondly those were the days indeed