Saturday 12 April 2014

Today lets mourn for Safdar Hashmi... its Street Play Day

Safdar Hashmi is nothing but a legend. He is revered by almost every sane Indian. He was born in  Delhi on this day that is on 12 th April,1954. Raised in an extremely open and secular environment... graduated  from Saint Stephens College and then did his master from Delhi University in English literature. He was a communist and was an active member of the party as well. He even married one of his comrades and colleague Maloysree. He was associated with its theatrical wing IPTA. He cofounded Janam(Jana Natya Manch) Peoples Theater Front in 1973. In 1989 he was murdered while performing a street play named Halla bol(attack).it was 1 st January 1989 he went to  a village Jhandpur in Sahibabad in the outskirts of Delhi along with his group Janam to perform the drama on the pretext of Gaziabad Municipality elections.... his troop was attacked by political hoodlums and he was fatally injured. He died that day what most awe inspiring was that his better half went to the same place just two days after his demice and performed the same play..... what a lady. 

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