1973: Janam is formed
The HinduPublished : Aug 14, 2022 06:00 IST Janam, short for Jana Natya Manch or people’s theatre forum, was born at an interesting juncture in the new republic. In 1973, hungry for change, a group of young and enthusiastic members of the Students’ Federation of India in Delhi formed the cultural front Janam from the vestiges of the Indian People’s Theatre Association of the 1940s. However, things turned ugly when on January 1, 1989, while the group was performing Halla Bol in the Jhandapur industrial area of Sahibabad, in Ghaziabad, Delhi, the group was attacked by political goons allegedly patronised by the Congress, the then ruling party. A young Nepali migrant worker, Ram Bahadur, was shot dead, several others injured, and Safdar Hashmi violently assaulted, his skull smashed with bamboo sticks and iron rods.
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