In whose context did Shahid Ahmad Dehlavi write “the arrival of the rains after a particularly long and harsh summer”?

M.K. Gandhi

Similarly, in other places such as Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi tried to build a spirit of mutual trust and confidence between the two communities. A Delhi Muslim, Shahid Ahmad Dehlavi, compelled to flee to a dirty, overcrowded camp in Purana Qila, likened Gandhiji’s arrival in Delhi on 9 September 1947 to “the arrival of the rains after a particularly long and harsh summer”. Dehlavi recalled in his memoir how Muslims said to one another: “Delhi will now be saved”.