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Southern Avenue with its Boulevard and Rabindra Sarobar Lake is a place unmatched, unchanged, makes one rethink life, and allows one to rewind in its own way of static-ness.

Those trees, their romantic smell and shady lanes gives you a feeling of longing, longing for something you never ever get to know.

Southern Avenue is a lover’s paradise, an adulterous couple’s den, and what better a place can there be with its shady boulevards and niches where couples can cuddle up for hours at a stretch without being noticed.

Rabindra Sarobar Lake is a place for various types of people for various times of the day. While the morning sees majorly old people, the day is followed by school kids and by the time afternoon strikes, the extramaritals creep in. Evenings are for intense lovers and the late nights are prowled un-straights.

There is yet another interesting pattern that throws up on examining in detail how romance progresses geographically. In the 3 sq. km area you graduate from one zone to another as shown in the map.

And the moment you leave that place, you realize you had been in some Garden of Eden.

For some, Southern Avenue is just one of the many posh South Kolkata addresses, for some it is life, but for me Southern Avenue is the ‘Best Place on Earth’.

Every evening around 7pm a car parks on the Sarat Bose Road Boulevard diagonally opposite to Kurry Club and stations there till 10 pm,

causing a roving eye to hundreds of office returnees and a side-vision (not allowing you to notice, that they noticed) of pretty young things, much due to the ambient light of a laptop en-glowing a busy face propped inside, though the low-bass thumps emanating out of the cabin are unable to surpass the hi-frequency street noise outside.

The Ubiquitous people you observe at Southern Avenue are a spectacle.

The interesting fact is, it’s been a Decade doing this.