JJKNapier-1 Letterhead
There are four known letterheads featuring the name of Osho's organization Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, with its address at 115, Napier Town in Jabalpur. This, the first one, was also the first to feature an image, and also the first to have its text information in the Roman alphabet. That's a lot of firsts for one simple piece of paper. The irony is that it seems to have been little used; at least, the wiki knows of only one letter that used it, on a fine-quality hand-made paper. Perhaps there is a story regarding that, or perhaps many other such letters are waiting to be found.
The next two in this letterhead's lineage did not have images, but the fourth did, an old Indian design taken up by the nascent counterculture movement in the west, which it's hard to believe Osho was unaware of. More about that there.
One last item of downstream lineage regards the image here. It did show up again in another little-used letterhead (Novelty-1 Letterhead) which had zero text information of any kind, just this image. The fact that this image was used in two different letterheads raises the question of its possible meaning and/or significance. If it has one in Indian culture, it is not known by the wiki, so drop us a line if you know, how-to info in the discussion page.
The name Jeevan Jagriti Kendra also needs to be discussed here. It comes various forms, all transliterations from जीवन जागृति केन्द्र. The two basic variations are Jeevan/Jivan and Jagruti/Jagriti, making four combinations which have all shown up in Osho's published works. The combination which has shown up the most has been Jivan Jagruti Kendra, which is the one on this letterhead and the second as well. On that basis, we perhaps should be using that version in the text here as well, but there is a case to be made ... (tbc)
This letterhead has, in the upper left corner:
- Acharya Rajnish
And below that, the image, of a ship's (steering) wheel, or what?
And on the bottom:
- Jivan Jagruti Kendra, 115, Napier Town, Jabalpur (M.P.)
Only one letter is known to have been written on this letterhead:
