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Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi

Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi

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9788194475910 | Paperback | 258 | 2020 | LeftWord Books

Halla Bol is a powerful account of the short and rich life of Safdar Hashmi's life. This book captures the cultural and political zeitgeist of Delhi in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Author: Sudhanva Deshpande

9788194475910 | PB | pp. 258 | 2020 | LeftWord Books

Halla Bol is a powerful account of the short and rich life of Safdar Hashmi’s life. This book captures the cultural and political zeitgeist of Delhi in the 1970s and 1980s.

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This is not a story of death. It is a story of life. The luminous life of Safdar Hashmi, extraordinary in all its ordinariness. On New Year’s Day in 1989, Jana Natya Manch – Janam – the theatre group Safdar was a part of, and which he led, was attacked while performing a street play on the outskirts of Delhi. He was only thirty-four when he died from injuries sustained during this senseless attack. Beginning with a record of the attack that killed him, this vivid memoir illuminates the life of Safdar Hashmi – artist, comrade, poet, writer, actor, activist, and a man everyone loved. But this is not a book about one man or one tragic incident. Halla Bol shows us, close up, how one man’s death and life are intertwined with the stories of many people. For a generation that grew up without knowing Safdar Hashmi, Halla Bol renders his passion, humour and humanism into an intimate portrait. It also gives an understanding of resistance, and the strength to put it into practice. It shows the profound link between ideology and real-life struggle. The ideas that Safdar and his colleagues grappled with during a period of tumult and change in India are harbingers of the society we are today.

Author:

Sudhanva Deshpande
ISBN:

9788194475910
Publisher:

LeftWord Books
Binding:

Paperback
Pages:

258
Year of Publication:

2020
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

Sudhanva Deshpande is a theatre director and actor. He joined Jana Natya Manch in 1987, and has acted in over 4,000 performances of over 80 plays. His articles and essays have appeared in The Drama Review, The Hindu, Frontline, Seminar, Economic and Political Weekly, Udbhavna, Samaj Prabodhan Patrika, among others. He has co-directed two films on the theatre legend Habib Tanvir and his company Naya Theatre. He is the editor of Theatre of the Streets: The Jana Natya Manch Experience (Janam 2007), and co-editor of Our Stage: Pleasures and Perils of Theatre Practice in India (Tulika 2008). He has held teaching positions at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Since 1998, he has been Managing Editor, LeftWord Books. He cycles around town.

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