FOR the first time in 33 years, Jana Natya Manch (Janam) did not perform a play on January 1.It was on that day in 1989 that Janam was attacked while performing a street play, Halla Bol, on the outskirts of Delhi, in Jhandapur village of Sahibabad, in support of CITU. Two people were killed in the attack – Ram Bahadur, a young Nepali migrant worker who had recently become a father, was shot dead, and Safdar Hashmi, Janam’s charismatic leader was bludgeoned on the head and left for dead. He died in hospital the following day.