For most of the city, the Quit India Movement that set the wheels turning for the final agitation against the British rule in India seems to be a forgotten chapter. As one revisited the August Kranti Maidan, the historic spot which witnessed the 1942 revolution didn’t seem to exude any recollection of its
heroic past.

It was on August 8, 1942, 70 years ago, when Mahatma Gandhi called upon India to rise in protest against the British, and with his speech began one of the biggest civil disobedience movements in the history of the world. Gandhi delivered his speech at Gowalia Tank (the open space where cattle were washed by herdsmen in the past; hence the name) that became August Kranti Maidan after this historic event.