Forward - Partha Chatterjee Introduction: Searching for the Left in a Fragmented World - Silvija Jestrovic & Bishnupriya Dutt Part I: Activism 1 Performing the Constitution as an insurgent document - Nivedita Menon 2 Revolution: Like. Share. Subscribe - Dragan Todorovic 3 The 'Hunger Artists': Hunger protests, prisons and insurgent citizenship - Anupama Roy and Ujjwal Kumar Singh 4 Of Quiet Resistance: Shy Radicals , divergent world-making and the poetics of statecraft - Anika Marschall Part II: Theatre 5 Acting Politically: Making performance in the eye of history - Adrian Kear 6 Theatre of the streets--of the working class: strikes, protests, and democratization of life - Bishnupriya Dutt 7 T he Cheviot and its Legacies: Dramaturgies of the Left in Scottish Theatre - Trish Reid 8 Between the Right and the Left: Staging political, emotional and social polarizations on Canadian stage - Yana Meerzon 9 The Indiscreet Charm of Left nostalgia: Reeking redolence in the contemporary - Ameet Parameswaran 10 Staging Revolution: Utpal Dutt's Kallol (1965) and the Question of 'Spectacular' Aesthetics in Calcutta's Leftist Theatre Practice - Trina Neelina Banerjee 11 Love in the time of revolution: Exploring political theatre of Utpal Dutt - Mallarika Sinha Roy Part III: Subjectivity 12 Revolutionary intimacies: Friendship, love, and theatre - Silvija Jestrovic 13 The fraught act of speaking for / about the communist women - Urmimala Sarkar Munsi 14 One always fails to speak of the things one loves: Memories of border crossings - Shirin M Rai 15 Why I am still a Socialist - Janelle Reinelt.