In a city filled with sublime addresses suddenly alerted to the loss of quaint buildings, there was one such in south Calcutta that existed for almost half a century and judging by the stones and structure had been standing long before that. 30 Bondel Road the haunt of Calcutta's maddest of Mad Men. But how the Mad Men came to inhabit a bungalow with a back garden and endless halls with a stately wooden staircase at its heart was never really discussed.