Halla Bol

✍ Scribed by Sudhanva Deshpande

• Publisher: LeftWord Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is not a story of death. It is a story of life. The luminous life of Safdar Hashmi, extraordinary in all its ordinariness.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Part One
January 1, 1989: Madras Hotel
January 1, 1989: Aiming for the Chair
January 1, 1989: The Performance
January 1, 1989: The Attack
January 1, 1989: Finding Our Way
January 1, 1989: Saving Safdar
January 1, 1989: Mohan Nagar Hospital
January 1, 1989: Delhi Hospitals
January 1, 1989: Escape
January 1, 1989: Hiding
January 2, 1989: Safdar’s Death
January 2, 1989: Mala
January 3, 1989: The Funeral Procession
January 4, 1989: The Performance
Summer 1987: My First Time with Janam
Summer 1987: Faridabad
Summer 1987: The State of Janam
Part Two
The Early Years
Early 1970S: Delhi University
Early 1970S: Reviving IPTA
1973: Janam Comes into Being
1975: Emergency
June 1979: Safdar Roy and Moloyashree Hashmi
October 1978: The Turn to Street Theatre
The 1980S: A Theory of Street Theatre
1978: Samudaya and Belchi
The 1980S: The Actors
The Early 1980S: Ritwik Ghatak
The Early 1980S: Audience Testimony
The Early 1980S: The Spread of Street Theatre
April 1982: The ‘Harijan’ Play
The Mid-1980S: Writing for Children
The Mid-1980S: Taking Theatre Seriously
The Mid-1980S: Committee for Communal Harmony
The Mid-1980S: Television and Documentaries
1988: Pakistan
Late-1980S: Ennui
Part Three
1988: Reviving Janam
Summer 1988: Aurat
Summer 1988: Raja Ka Baja
May 1988: Habib Tanvir
June 1988: Adapting Premchand
July 1988: Hanuman’s Tail
July 1988: Chamelijaan
July 1988: Guru and Shishya
July 1988: Zohra Segal
July 1988: Moneekadi
July 1988: What is Acting?
Autumn 1988: Training Ourselves
October 1988: Reorganizing Janam
October 1988: Ten Years of Street Theatre
The 1980S: Delhi’s Working Class
Organizing Workers
October 1988: Organizing for the Strike
October 1988: Writing Chakka Jaam
November 1988: Performing Chakka Jaam
November 1988: The Strike
December 1988: Dreams
December 1988: The Last Month
The Doubter
Epilogue
Halla Bol, Translated by Neeraj Mallick
Note on Sources
Acknowledgements