Tuesday’s blast has changed Kazipara. Barricades around the blast site have ensured no vehicles can pass through the road that connects Jessore Road and VIP Road.

Rickshaws can’t enter and Matadors carrying clothes for a pandal nearby is off limits. A new meat shop opposite the blast-hit building had to keep its shutters that were damaged by shrapnel down.

A beauty parlour nearby struggled for customers. A shop beside the building that is into painting refrigerators and fans remained shut for most of the day.

CID officers and central forensic team members inspected the meat shop on Wednesday.

“The blast has numbed everyone,” Bulan Sengupta, a resident of Kazipara for more than two decades, said.

“The sight of Biltu’s body in a hearse van has left everyone shocked. The feeling that Puja is round the corner has gone missing,” Sengupta said.

The pandal down the road wore a deserted look on Wednesday afternoon. Large cut-outs and motifs lay locked inside rooms as labourers were nowhere to be seen.

On a wall opposite the pandal was a banner saying, Kazipara Unnayan Parishad and Kazipara Durga Puja Committee mourned the dead.

“Kazipara used to be one of the most peaceful localities in the area. Political differences would never come in the way of us mingling with each other,” Sukomol Pal, a resident, said. “A blast has changed everything and we don’t like it.”

Ajit Halder, the fruit-seller admitted to RG Kar hospital, used to be the source of daily supply during the Puja days. He wouldn’t be there this time.

The tea stall next to the closed godown would remain open till late at night during Puja. It probably won’t this time, a resident said.