JANAM'S COMMITMENTS

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Notes

*A version of this review essay appeared in Naked Punch 9 (2007).

1. Deshpande, ed. 2007, 59

2. IPTA 1979.

3. Deshpande, ed. 2007, 62.

4. Hashmi 1997.

5. “Laal Jhanda Le Kar Comrade” (Red flag in hand, comrade), the chant Janam members raised on the tenth anniversary of the murder of Safdar Hashmi in Sahibabad on the outskirts of Delhi. See Prashad 1999.

6. See, for example, Ranadive 1987.

7. Althusser 1971, 224.

8. Hashmi 1989.

9. Ghosh 2006.

10. In an essay in Seagull Theatre Quarterly Sudhanva Deshpande (2002) recounts what worked and didn't work in this production and how an industrial worker in Faridabad pushed Janam to make the play more political.

11. Patwardhan's considerable work has been given a very sympathetic review by Critical Asian Studies, with a multipart study by Miriam Sharma (2002), Bhrigupati Singh and Ashok Bhargava (2002), and Linda Hess (2003) — these brief notes should not in any way take away from the judgment in these other, fuller statements.