Churchgate-2 Letterhead

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Osho made his big move from Kamala Nehru Nagar in Jabalpur to apartment #27, on the 4th floor of CCI Chambers, at 210, Dinshaw Vacha Rd in Churchgate, an area of Bombay/Mumbai, at the end of Jun 1970. It was time for him to connect with the larger world, which soon started coming, crowding his apartment and especially overwhelming the elevators. He soon had to move.

His short stay in CCI Chambers generated only three known letterheads, one in Hindi and two in English. Perhaps even just one English one would have sufficed, but the spelling mistakes in the first one necessitated some improvements. That was done for this one by borrowing heavily from the KamalaNehru-1 Letterhead, changing little but the details of the address

It reads, in the top left corner, in a dark grey-green italic font:

acharya rajneesh

And continuing to the right but lower down, in small pale blue all-caps:

27 C C I CHAMBERS BOMBAY 20 PHONE 293782

And above the end of that in the top right corner, a Jeevan Jagriti Kendra logo in two colours: the same dark grey-green for the circles but a bright red for the flame. Three colours!

It was little more than a week from the first known use of this letterhead that Osho wrote a letter on obsolete Kamala Nehru letterhead, crossing out that address and writing in the address of his NEXT place, Woodland apartments on Peddar Rd. It is not surprising, therefore, that few letters are known with this letterhead.

So far we have fifteen, below, with recipient and publication info noted:

Letter written on 25 Oct 1970 (YPrem), to Ma Yoga Prem, published in Dhai Aakhar Prem Ka (ढ़ाई आखर प्रेम का) as letter #37
Letter written on 25 Oct 1970 (Samadhi), to Ma Yoga Samadhi
Letter written on 12 Nov 1970 (Maitreya), to Sw Anand Maitreya, published in Dhai Aakhar Prem Ka (ढ़ाई आखर प्रेम का) as letter #41
Letter written on 12 Nov 1970 (YPrem), to Ma Yoga Prem, published in Antarveena (अंतर्वीणा) as letter #30
Letter written on 17 Nov 1970, to Ma Kusum Bharti, published in Prem Ke Swar (प्रेम के स्वर) as letter #21
Letter written on 25 Nov 1970 (YPrem), to Ma Yoga Prem, published in Prem Ke Phool (प्रेम के फूल) as letter #129
Letter written on 26 Nov 1970, to Ma Kusum Bharti, published in Prem Ke Swar (प्रेम के स्वर) as letter #22

Letters after this date are likely written after his move to Woodland, before the new letterhead was created.

Letter written on 14 Dec 1970 (Veetaraga), to Sw Chaitanya Veetaraga, published in Antarveena (अंतर्वीणा) as letter #36
Letter written on 15 Dec 1970 (Veetaraga), to Sw Chaitanya Veetaraga, published in Antarveena (अंतर्वीणा) as letter #41
Letter written on 15 Dec 1970 (Samadhi), to Ma Yoga Samadhi, published in Antarveena (अंतर्वीणा) as letter #46
Letter written on 16 Dec 1970 (YPrem), to Ma Yoga Prem, published in Antarveena (अंतर्वीणा) as letter #48
Letter written on 16 Dec 1970 (Veetaraga), to Sw Chaitanya Veetaraga, published in Antarveena (अंतर्वीणा) as letter #51
Letter written on 20 Dec 1970, to Ma Yoga Geeta, published in Antarveena (अंतर्वीणा) as letter #66
Letter written on 25 Feb 1971, to Ma Kusum Bharti, published in Prem Ke Swar (प्रेम के स्वर) as letter #24 and also in Pad Ghunghru Bandh (पद घुंघरू बांध) as letter #104
Letter written on 6 Mar 1971 (Nivedita), to Ma Prema Nivedita, published in Pad Ghunghru Bandh (पद घुंघरू बांध) as letter #134