Sudhanva Deshpande is an actor and director with Jana Natya Manch (Janam), a radical political theatre group based in New Delhi, and Managing Editor with LeftWord Books since its inception in 1999. He has edited Theatre of the Streets: The Jana Natya Manch Experience (Janam 2007) and co-edited Our Stage: The Pleasures and Perils of Theatre Practice in India Today (Tulika 2009). He has co-directed two documentary films on Naya Theatre and Habib Tanvir. He has been involved in the creation and teaching of India's first capacity building training course for theatre, SMART. Since 2012, he has been involved in the conceptualisation, creation, administration and programming of Studio Safdar and May Day Bookstore, New Delhi.