From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1946: Seventy-five years ago: Strange noises.

Last fortnight's widespread disturbances, which were much more serious than any since the Congress-sponsored 'rebellion' of 1942, have been brought under control, although Madras seems anxious to keep the bonfires burning, in a belated bid for glory. India hit world press headlines and international opinion was almost unanimous in reading, in these manifestations of violence, the death warrant of imperialism in Asia. That reading may be correct, but there are other lessons to be derived from these incidents, which do no credit to some of the elements professedly ranged against imperialism... .

Try how they would, Congress leaders cannot get away from the fact that Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras and other cities...