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It documents the group's transition to street theatre in 1978 and its methods for scripting, training talent, and performing "skin-to-skin" with spectators in working-class industrial areas.

Ghosh examines Janam's close ties to the organized Left in India and its focus on issues like labor rights, caste, gender equality, and communalism. A History of the Jana Natya Manch: Plays for th...

A central focus is the life and 1989 murder of founder-member Safdar Hashmi , which occurred while the group was performing the play Halla Bol . Major Plays Discussed It documents the group's transition to street theatre

The book highlights several landmark productions that defined political theatre in India: Performing Solidarity: 50 Years of Jana Natya Manch A History of the Jana Natya Manch: Plays for th...

The book explores Janam’s founding in 1973 by student radicals and its emergence from the Delhi branch of the IPTA.