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This is one of three letters Osho wrote to [[JK Datta]], an advocate living in Jabalpur in the 60s. It was written sometime in August of 1966. It is partly handwritten and partly typewritten, but the typed part seems to be no more than a typed rendition of the manuscript.
This is one of three letters Osho wrote to [[JK Datta]], an advocate living in Jabalpur in the 60s. It was written sometime in August of 1966. It appears at first to be partly handwritten and partly typed, but the typed part in fact turns to be only a transcription of the manuscript, done much later. There is a fragment of a date in the original manuscript but unreadable, so the typist's estimate of August 1966, likely done in consultation with Shri Datta, is probably the best we can do.  
 
In fact, the presumed typewriter's output is almost like book-quality printing, and, since we don't know when the typing was done or by whom, a Hindi-capable computer must be considered a likely source, ie done much later. There is a fragment of a date in the original manuscript but unreadable, so the typist's estimate of August 1966 is probably the best we can do.  


This letter is not known to have been published.  
This letter is not known to have been published.  

Revision as of 05:44, 29 January 2020

This is one of three letters Osho wrote to JK Datta, an advocate living in Jabalpur in the 60s. It was written sometime in August of 1966. It appears at first to be partly handwritten and partly typed, but the typed part in fact turns to be only a transcription of the manuscript, done much later. There is a fragment of a date in the original manuscript but unreadable, so the typist's estimate of August 1966, likely done in consultation with Shri Datta, is probably the best we can do.

This letter is not known to have been published.


See also these other letters to Shri Datta:

Letter written on 7 Feb 1964 am
Letter written on 27 Sep 1968