Jana Sanskriti’s journey began from a small village in the Sunderbans in 1985. Today it has 30 satellite theatre teams in West Bengal (mostly in the districts of South 24 Parganas and Purulia), two in Tripura, two in Jharkhand, one each in New Delhi and Orissa. Teams have also been formed in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Karnataka. These teams reach at least 2,00,000 spectators every year through their performances. As Augusto Boal said, “Jana Sanskriti is the largest and the longest lasting forum theatre operation in the world”. Of the teams in West Bengal, nine are all-women theatre teams, perhaps another first in India.

Jana Sanskriti also organises a bi-annual Forum Theatre festival called Muktadhara since 2004. The important reason for organizing this Festival is that it becomes an international meeting ground for the Forum Theatre teams across the world as well as those trained by Jana Sanskriti all over India. Each of these teams is active in their own regions; most of them are also heading organizations engaged in struggles to assert the rights of the marginalized. These festivals have been highly successful and attended by noted theatre personalities from India as well as from all the continents.

In November 2015, Jana Sanskriti International Research and Resource Institute (JSIRRI) came into being unifying artist-activists from across the world justifying the Indian ethos represented in "Vasudhaiva Kutum Bakum"

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